It has been quite sometime since I've looked at my genealogy project, and even longer that I last posted an entry here.
Since beginning graduate school, finishing, and starting my career teaching history, I haven't had time to really dig deep into this. Sure I would briefly search around ancestry.com but never really sit down and spend a lot of time on it.
Even now I haven't really spent a lot of time on it. As I wait for my new job at a new school to start I have some time, so last night I began with my father's side of the family - somehow I ended up here with my mother's side of the family. I also purchased 6 months of the international membership (for the first time) on ancestry.com. Now I can trace my families back to Mexico and England.
Ok some things I have found so far: I did my DNA testing from Ancestry and let me just say, I was disappointed, more on that in a separate entry. I also found that my father's side of the family I can trace back to the civil war and that our ancestors came the the U.S. from England as an indentured servant. Really interesting!
But where I ended up was here, with Josephine Segura Avila, my grandmother. Here I give you here birth certificate. I always knew grandma had A LOT of siblings. So many I always forget the number of siblings she had, but here her birth certificate indicates that not only was she the 7th child born, prior to Josephine's birth her mother had 14 children. 6 (plus grandma) were the ones who survived.
I know that child birth and miscarries were very common back then but wow! I've heard, as a child so I could be wrong, that though my grandmother had my mom and her 4 sisters, that she actually had 10 children, but 5 did not survive. Its highly likely.
Also, there is a field that asks if precautions were taken against opthalmia neonatorum:
Neonatal conjunctivitis, also known as ophthalmia neonatorum, is a form of conjunctivitis and a type of neonatal infection contracted by newborns during delivery. The baby's eyes are contaminated during passage through the birth canal from a mother infected with either Neisseria gonorrhoeae or Chlamydia trachomatis.
That was interesting as well. I guess that was another possibility for the time.
Since beginning graduate school, finishing, and starting my career teaching history, I haven't had time to really dig deep into this. Sure I would briefly search around ancestry.com but never really sit down and spend a lot of time on it.
Even now I haven't really spent a lot of time on it. As I wait for my new job at a new school to start I have some time, so last night I began with my father's side of the family - somehow I ended up here with my mother's side of the family. I also purchased 6 months of the international membership (for the first time) on ancestry.com. Now I can trace my families back to Mexico and England.
Ok some things I have found so far: I did my DNA testing from Ancestry and let me just say, I was disappointed, more on that in a separate entry. I also found that my father's side of the family I can trace back to the civil war and that our ancestors came the the U.S. from England as an indentured servant. Really interesting!
But where I ended up was here, with Josephine Segura Avila, my grandmother. Here I give you here birth certificate. I always knew grandma had A LOT of siblings. So many I always forget the number of siblings she had, but here her birth certificate indicates that not only was she the 7th child born, prior to Josephine's birth her mother had 14 children. 6 (plus grandma) were the ones who survived.
I know that child birth and miscarries were very common back then but wow! I've heard, as a child so I could be wrong, that though my grandmother had my mom and her 4 sisters, that she actually had 10 children, but 5 did not survive. Its highly likely.
Also, there is a field that asks if precautions were taken against opthalmia neonatorum:
Neonatal conjunctivitis, also known as ophthalmia neonatorum, is a form of conjunctivitis and a type of neonatal infection contracted by newborns during delivery. The baby's eyes are contaminated during passage through the birth canal from a mother infected with either Neisseria gonorrhoeae or Chlamydia trachomatis.
That was interesting as well. I guess that was another possibility for the time.
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