Families Reunions: Their Sixteen

The method to the madness

You may not have realized it, but these Family Reunion posts have had a purpose. (Or maybe you did - you’re pretty smart, too, you know!)

Early on, I found a useful approach to research in “My Sixteen: A Self-help Guide to Finding Your Sixteen Great-great Grandparents” by Robert W. Marlin. The goal of tracing and documenting all 16 great-grandparents gave my research some focus and scope. And I have found that it is a lot easier for cousins and fellow researchers to find you if you talk about more surnames than your own.

Over the last sixteen weeks or so I have been giving you a “wave top” view of the surnames of each of my children’s great-great grandparents. In the coming weeks, I’ll move “up” a generation and lay out more surnames for My Sixteen and “Her Sixteen” for ancestors on my wife’s side.

But starting from my children, these folks are their Sixteen:

If you’d like to review a particular post, here they are - sorted in something similar to Ahnentafel order:

1. Callin

2. Greenlee

3. Witter

4. Huff

5. Clark

6. Reynolds

7. Tuttle

8. Frey

9. McCullough

10. Blom

11. Shuffler

12. Thompson/Thomsen

13. Holmquist

14. Leander

15. Martin

16. Putnam

From here, I plan to continue adding Family Reunion posts that alternate between the surnames of My Sixteen and Her Sixteen - but probably not every week, as we have other kinds of stories to tell, too.

If you have an interest in any of these families, make sure you’re subscribed so you see them when they are posted.

If you want to encourage me to focus on a family you are interested in sooner rather than later, drop me a note at “mightieracorns at gmail dot com” or in a comment here.