On my mom's side I we can count 6 generations (including those living), up thru my granny's family. On my mom's dad's family we can count only 4. It wouldn't be hard to do a family tree on that side of the family as most of the elders are still alive. I know some of the family names though.
My granny was a Branham, her mom was a Short, and her mom was a York. My Grandpa's mom was a Frazier also. My grandma's dad was some kind of foreman for the old school railroad back in the 1800's. They had a HUGE old house and was large landholders as well. Family gossip has it that my Granny actually doesn't belong to her mom, but was raised as such and that actually my grandpa had a mistress that had a baby and didn't want it so my great grandmother took her as her own. Of course that's something that we'll never know.
On my dad's side of the family I'm not so sure. My dad's dad died when he was 17 and I wasn't born until he was 40. His mom died when I was 4 months old. I know my dad's mom was a Frazier before she married and I know that on my dad's dad's side they were ran out of colonial Virginia for bootlegging tobacco. ( They didn't pay taxes on it.) That's how dad's family came to be in Kentucky.
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