I am seriously in love with the Internet right now

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » November 22nd, 2008, 10:00 am

A chance comment ("Maybe your Elizabeth is my Lizzie?") on an Ancestry board hooked me up with a distant relative, who, just this noon sent me the following.

A previously unseen photo of my great-great grandparents Anton Thomas Bodner and his wife Elizabeth Kohlmeier who came from Austria and settled in the wilds of Kentucky in the late 1800s.

I am euphoric.

c u there · Postby **c u there** » November 22nd, 2008, 10:09 am

Yes isn't it great sometimes. I was goofing off with the net one day and found an early census, with my dad's family and all their neighbors, which were kin or close friends. Makes for a day a little more special doesn't it. Nice pic

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » November 22nd, 2008, 10:54 am

That man is definitely a Creasy.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » November 22nd, 2008, 11:14 am

From what I remember...you do look like them...

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » November 22nd, 2008, 5:55 pm

Scary, huh, to see a 120+ year old reflection of yourself? :wink:

TW · Postby TW » November 22nd, 2008, 6:20 pm

soulsearcher wrote:Scary, huh, to see a 120+ year old reflection of yourself?

What are you saying? I see that every morning when I look into the mirror. :lol:

TW

Billy n NC · Postby **Billy n NC** » November 22nd, 2008, 8:08 pm

Gerald, What Ancestry Board are you using.

For a long time I have had names and photos back to my
Great Great Grandfather who was born in 1856.

But about a month ago a new member of a Yahoo Genelogy group
contacted me who was using Ancestry dot com with some more info.

I joined Ancestry dot com for the free 30 day deal and I was able to dig thru cenus for 1890 etc and some others.

I now can go back to Abner Broach who came over on a boat in the mid 1700's along with his 3 brothers. Abner settled in Darlington, SC area after the revolution war..

Way Kewl..

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » November 22nd, 2008, 8:33 pm

Billy n NC wrote:Gerald, What Ancestry Board are you using.

For a long time I have had names and photos back to my
Great Great Grandfather who was born in 1856.

But about a month ago a new member of a Yahoo Genelogy group
contacted me who was using Ancestry dot com with some more info.

I joined Ancestry dot com for the free 30 day deal and I was able to dig thru cenus for 1890 etc and some others.

I now can go back to Abner Broach who came over on a boat in the mid 1700's along with his 3 brothers. Abner settled in Darlington, SC area after the revolution war..

Way Kewl..

I love Ancestry.com but can't afford it all the time....every other year or so I buy a membership to brush up, delve in and do more exploring.

Their documents feature is amazing.

I was able to locate a branch of Creasys that relocated "out west" with their digitized census records and alphabetical search (Years of census record searching INSTANTLY!!) and obtain brickwall cracking information from WWI draft cards.

As to my recent find-A year ago I responded to a query posted on Ancestry.com five years ago regarding the Lizzie/Elizabeth thing.

Just this week TWO people responded: The one who sent me pictures and one who had spent time with her grandfather who told her about our common relatives ( I received detailed info such as such-and-such great aunt worked in a textile mill on Goss Ave in the Germantown neighborhood-and I realized I had stood in that Mill -until just recently a posh antique store- and stared at a photo of mill workers the antique store still had wondering if I was looking at some of my relatives and not knowing it.

I love genealogy especially when it starts cracking.

I havent been this excited since a relative stumbled across a catch of Civil War era checks, reciepts and letters, including the Doctor bill for the delivery of my 2nd great gandfather Issac Creasy.

one love · Postby **one love** » November 23rd, 2008, 3:04 am

that is awesome Gerald I want to look into that as well. Good post and find :wink:

Susie Hamilton · Postby **Susie Hamilton** » November 23rd, 2008, 11:52 am

http://www.skyn.net/

Gerald, have you seen this page?

DaJudge · Postby **DaJudge** » November 23rd, 2008, 4:35 pm

Really cool Gerald. We've used Ancestry.com, but never got any info that cool.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » November 23rd, 2008, 6:58 pm

That is very, very neat, Gerald. I posted a few weeks back about discovering our link to Kevin Costner (6th cousin, twice removed). Took me about 1 hour to find it on ancestry.com and not even needing a membership. Pretty neat stuff, there.

Tim Elston · Postby **Tim Elston** » November 23rd, 2008, 8:46 pm

dolfan wrote:I posted a few weeks back about discovering our link to Kevin Costner (6th cousin, twice removed).

Interesting. I met your cousin Dan Kostner in Deadwood, South Dakota. I was traveling with a guy who had served in the bushes with Dan in Viet Nam, and we stopped by to say hello. Dan was involved in building some sort of resort in Deadwood.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » November 24th, 2008, 5:33 am

I don't know about Dan. :lol:

Is he Kevin Costner's brother? If he is, okay, I'll claim him, too. :lol:

It was, though, pretty cool to discover that connection. Although, when others posted about their relations to the likes of Daniel Boone and Johnny Cash, I had ancestry envy.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » November 24th, 2008, 8:32 am

Awesome Gerald. Teach me this skill you have. :wink:

I have tons of older family photos to share with others.

Jude 2