Rough Night

I tossed and turned all night, restless with dreams of my Great Grandparents. I am overwhelmed, I feel like they don't want me to know anything about my family. I am thrilled to have found their marriage record last night but instead of bringing me peace, it leaves me with more questions. To find any records about my Great Great Grandparents named in the marriadhe record, I have to search German records which aren't that great. How do I even do that? It looks like I am going to have to physically go to the Family Research Library, I am hoping that there is a sweet little volunteer man or woman who will take pity on me. Someone who lives to unlock family mysteries and will volunteer to help me with my research.
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Great Great Grandmother and Grandfather on Paternal Grandfather's Side

This evening, right as I was about to shoot my computer in frustration with Ancestry.com....I came across the marriage record of my Great Grandfather and Grandmother (my Grandfather's parents). Oddly enough I did not find the information on Ancestry, instead I found it on FamilySearch.com. Not only did it give me the date they were married, but I now have my Great Grandfather's Father's name and my Great Grandmother's Mothers name. Now, this also opens up more questions like 1. Why is Great Grandpa's Mother not named and Great Grandma's Father not named. 2. While knowing they were married in New York in 1892 is great, why can't I find any record of them individually in 1892 in New York since both of them arrived prior to that? I am giving up for the night, I am going to take my little piece of research success, hold it tight and have sweet dreams. At least I can now give my Mom, Aunt, Cousin and his daughter names that no one in the family had ever known.

Cheers!

Spears Side Update 2

Bio-Dad got more info from his cousins. Apparently my Great Grandfather John Walter was full blooded Cherokee and my Great Grandmother Lula Goines was full blooded Chickasaw. BOTH of them lived on reservations (or whatever they were called at the time) and were moved from North Tennessee sometime in the late 1800's. I can't wait until the photographs they are sending him finally get there, I so want to see what they look like. Do any of us resemble them? I can't wait!

Update 03/09/2012
Bio Dad gave me bad info. Spoke with his cousin who has the family history and it is Iriquois and Chickasaw Indian. Either way, it is going to be a long road in trying to find any records of my Great Great Grandparents on my paternal Grandfathers side.

Spears Side Update

Woke up to an email from my bio-dad that he contacted some cousins (I didn't know he kept in touch with ANYONE aside from his brothers) who were going to be sending him photographs of his Father, Aunts and Uncles. I am completely blown away, I can't believe I am going to see a picture of my Grandfather for the first time. I am excited and a tad bit trepedatious, yet hopefully, these images will help unlock the secrets I have been trying to find out.

I'm So Frustrated

That's it! It's time to call in a professional. I am at a loss, I can't find ANYONE on my Grandfather's side or my biological father's side or my Grandmother's side.. I keep hitting that damned wall again and I am at the point where I cry when I think about genealogy. Now if I can only find someone down for the challenge and who is affordable. I live in Utah, the mecca for genealogy, you'd think folks would be affordable, um, nope. :/

McVey, McFarland and Goins (Update)

Well I am back to square one :(. Thanks to the help of a very nice man on Ancestry.com, he helped point out that the information my Mother-in-law had dug up was WRONG. Everything she had found was not related my direct family line. So I am back to the beginning with no new information on the horizon. I think it is time to hire a professional :/.

McVey, McFarland, Goins and more

I finally got a break in tracing my Spears line, thanks to my mother-in-law. I still haven't broken the Spears line itself but I was able to get the names I needed for my Great-Grandmother Lula Belle Goins. Through her line I was able to discover that we are German (a lot of it), English (royal as in Sirs and Ladies) and Scottish (Och, to the Moors Lads and Lassies). At least one branch has been broken, now to just try and figure out the rest of the branches.

Cheers!
Sammee