My Bryant Family Line-Charity Bryant & Silvia Drake

Family Tree History & Research 

Monday, March 12, 2018

As I continue to research my family history from my moms many lines back to New England, I am being frequently surprised by the many interesting people "hanging in the branches of this crazy tree".

I have recently started digging into my 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Bryant Great Grandparents and I am finding quite a few neat histories in this line.

Going back a few centuries, today I would like everyone to meet my third cousin Charity Bryant.
Charity's life has been talked about in many circles and has been the subject of many research articles and stories through out the years. She was also the aunt of another of my cousins in this Bryant family line, the famous author William Cullen Bryant.

She lived on this earth from 1777 until 1850.....

My Bryant Family Line-Kissing Cousins

Family Tree History and Research
March 4, 2018

"Untangling A Slew of Abigail's and John's and Finding  Kissing Cousins"

I made another strange discovery last night while researching my mother's family lines back to New England.
As I was working on the never ending task of growing and building my family lines, and researching my Faunce family branch, I discovered that a set of my 9th great grandparents were 1st cousins!
At first I thought to myself, how can this be?
There has to be some error in the trees somewhere.
There were numerous Abigail's with the same names but different birth dates (separated by generations) and the names kept coming back to the some of the same people in my tree such as Lt. John Bryant. (see screenshots below)

So I dug into the family lines and spent hours looking at their parents and their parents and researching numerous sites and books and becoming so confused that I was getting a headache trying to sort out what can only be described as a major conundrum.....