I'm in!
If you have ever surveyed anywhere near St. Libory, you may have been on land once owned by some of my ancestors. Several different branches of the old family tree spent time there. Probably some are still there but I don't know who they are.
I'm watching for whoever takes that Antarctica job!
@holy-cow I have not surveyed in St. Libory. The closest I've been is Fayetteville via the Kaskaskia River. Fayetteville is where the channelized section begins and goes from there to the Mississippi and allows small barge traffic. I've also done the section upstream of Fayetteville up to Carlyle Lake. Vastly different methodology. Perhaps your ancestors used to fish or use the river? I'd imagine they were there long before the Lake was built by the USACE back in the 30's(I think?). Anyway, that's a neat story!
My paternal grandmother was from a little town south of where I live now called Prairie Du Rocher. I've never been there and don't know anything about her family. Dad says she left for the big city as soon as she could, met my grandpa and rarely went back. She passed when I was pretty young. I have a friend that grew up there and his parents still live there. He says the Roy family is alive and well in the area. I'll have to trek down there some day and see what I can find.
Found 12 members of a Roy family in Prairie du Rocher that qualify as permanent residents at this link.
@holy-cow Wow! Some of those go way back! I'll have to ask Dad if any of the those names ring a bell. The one that deceased in 1986 could be a close relative as she passed in the early 80's. I do remember dad saying that they were French and that they americanized from Roy (Wah) to Roy like toy.
My paternal grandfather's family was all German. I need to look up when they came over. I know they settled on the south side of St. Louis and had some very prominent orchards in the area. There was even a Flamm City until it was annexed by Arnold. My dad has told me of a story that grandpa was a family heir to the ground that is now Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery and VA. The government borrowed it during war time and never gave it back. All land records have disappeared from the StL County courthouse as well. Every once in a while, that story will pop up in a little neighborhood newspaper. There are still old stone cellars on the grounds where they would store fruits harvested from the orchards. The wines grandpa used to make from grapes and peaches were a delight.
Holy moly. The Flamm clan must breed like rabbits. Check out this cemetery near Flamm City with a long list of Flamm relatives.
Is this your grandmother?
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21497914/felicitas-m-flamm
@holy-cow It is not. She's buried beside grandpa in Mt. Olive Cemetery about 8.5 miles north in Lemay. There seems to be a bunch of them but I hardly know any other than two uncles and an aunt, who are all deceased, and some of the first cousins.
@holy-cow That's a rabbit hole that I'll have to crawl down! I need to check out that cemetery too. I went to the preschool and was baptized in that church. Kind of makes sense now. My parents divorced when I was kindergarten and my mom moved my sister and I over to southern Indiana, where she was from. Her side gets interesting too! Grandpa was 1/2 American Indian so tracing that would be neat!
Boo hoo. Boo hoo. Nobody wants to be my neighbor. Nearest fellow poster is 320 miles from me. And he is in Illinois. Wake up Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Anyone in Nebraska closer than 700 miles would be nice, too.
maybe when you get bathed and combed out this spring some folks might consider it….
Can we edit locations? My pin is down by Bug Timber instead of near Kalispell.
My location is shown only 1.5 miles SE of me. Is the map using the center of a zipcode ?
Nope not the center of a Zip code.
You have to zoom in a lot to see where a plumb bob is located because it is using the center of the symbol instead of the point of the bob. Google Earth has the same problem.
It's got me out in the middle of Mcdonald Forest near the Old Growth Trail.
I'm okay with that
