Where did the past year go? Seems like it started about a month ago. And I only took off a couple days at the holidays, so it seems like Christmas just sped by too.

In the next few months, I’m going back to the Bruns/Ferber lines to see what blanks I can fill in. Specifically, ancestors of Dorothea Bruns (1906-1985) and George Ferber (1901-1979).

For Dorothea Bruns, I have only found 2 of 4 grandparents, and 2 of 8 great-grandparents. No great-great-grandparents at all.

For George Ferber, I have all 4 grandparents, but only 3 of 8 great-grandparents, and 2 of 16 great-great-grandparents.

All in all, not very many. Although, some of these lines are actually back to the immigrant ancestor, so it’s hard to get back past that person because you have to look at foreign records. On some of the other lines, I’ve come to a brick wall. But I’m going to try to at least get back to where the lines immigrated to the US. Maybe with some concentrated effort (and not getting sidetracked with the other new information I’ve been collecting on Posa, Chapman, and Thompson), I can make some good headway.

And that’s the closest I’m going to come to actually making a New Year’s resolution!