[sigmadiva]

Neat thread!!

Different people on my mother's fathers's side have been researching our family history. I worked on it a bit when I was in Salt Lake City for a conference. I used the geneology library at the Mormon Center. Lots of stuff if you all ever find yourself in Salt Lake. So far my mother has been able to go back to 1852, my great-grandfather's birth. She is hoping to find plantation documents to go back farther.

I think someone mentioned a family name change? Well, I know that on my father's mother's side, my great (or great-great) grandfather changed his last name from Rasmussen, the slave owners name, to Rasmus. So, slight name changes are very possible.