Ancestry.com

My boys gave me a membership to Ancestry.com for my birthday. Well, it has been a journey trying to fill out my family tree.  My mother's family and my dad's family all grew up in the same part of the world, Cherokee County, Alabama.  I have traced to my great-grandparents on both sides, and that is where it seems to end for now.  Benjamin Franklin Roe, 1845-1912, and Sarah Jane Roe, 1845-?.  On Mom's side: William Marion Archer, 1848-1948, and Mary Keener, 1865-1912.

However, on Marcia's side, I was able to go much further back. Her grandparents were Roy and Sydney Jones. That is where the Joneses end.  Sydney Keller Jones's line continues back seven more generations to Georg Keller, 1670-1750, in Germany on her father's side.  Marcia's great-great grandmother was Eva Kern, David Keller's wife (1775-1850).  Her parents were George Kern and Juditha Kern. Juditha Kern's father's line goes back six more generations to Steffan Kern, 1542-1583. Katharina Hanssen's (Steffan's wife's),  father was Lorentz Hanssen, 1525.  On her grandmother Bessy Newton Lowe's side, it goes back eleven generations to John Newton, 1572-1633, in England.

So far I have identified 184 people in the Roe/Jones family trees.

This is a picture of the Roe side. The Jones side is much bigger. It won't fit on one screen.