Guess what arrived in the mail?
Janice Marie Sellers (me), born 1962
Bertram Lynn Sellers, Jr. (my father), born 1935
Bertram Lynn Sellers [Sr.] (my grandfather), born circa 1903
Cornelius Elmer Sellers (my great-grandfather), born 1874
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
Knowing your family tree as I do, I'm curious as to how many other ancestors' signatures you have acquired?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's an official historical signature collecting sort of hobby - like coin or stamp collecting. If so, you've got an wonderful start.
I haven't counted, but I know I have several other ancestors' signatures. Sellers is the first line I've been able to take to six generations.
DeleteI don't know if there's an official society or anything, but I've seen people on Antiques Roadshow who collect signatures/autographs. One man, who did not appear on air, had signatures from every president. If I remember correctly, his collection was valued at a million dollars.