Christmas Traditions Now & For Your Ancestors

Are your present day Christmas Traditions the same  ones your Ancestors kept?

Was there a large Family Gathering?

Was there a Tree?  Where did the tree come from?
The property, a neighbors yard, etc...?

photo from: http://www.shorpy.com/node/9599

Were do you get your tree?  A tree farm, Your property, a neighbors etc???

Christmas has so many traditions woven in it.

When I was little my parents would give us new PJ's or nightgown on Christmas Eve.  It was the start of many more surprises.

Dutch Roots

I always knew that I had Dutch Ancestors.  But now they are coming out of the knooks & crannies.

Do you feel that way about recent ancestral discoveries?  I do.

So I already knew that I had at least one Dutch on my moms side.  Which is Idonia Rjicke.

Then finding out that my Great Granddad George Byron Putman also is most likely New York Dutch. 

New twist happened last night when I had decided to post the photos from my Spegiel & Tessier lines.
Since I like accuracy so much I had decided to look up Prosper Tessier census records.

I found out way more then I had imagined.  To me all the possible research had been done on the Tessier line by my cousin. So I had not considered that I could not possibly find out more.   However I know differently now.

They I am reading tru the list of Prosper, Katherine, childrens names.  Then who are these Van Derhurk?
What father-in-law, mother-in-law Frank & Julia Van DerHurk. Dutch???
Now we know Catherine's mothers name & her step father.  

 So Cool I finally find out. 

  

A - Z X

A – Z  X

X marks the spot

X is the spot where an Ancestor is born

X is the spot where an ancestor first stepped their foot on the new found land

Iverness Castlr

Iverness Castle

 

It keeps showing up in my scottish ancestors lives.