The grave of Isaac van Deusen (1704-1796) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Last year, I went with my family and parents-in-law to visit the graves of long-departed ancestors of my father-in-law. We calculated that Isaac van Deusen, a Dutch colonist in western Massachusetts, is my child’s seventh great-grandfather, nine generations removed from her (and seven from my father-in-law). As someone whose genealogy gets lost a generation before my grandfathers immigrated to the US, this is astounding to me. -Michael Tino (CLF)
What is your experience of understanding your genealogy?