I was disappointed not to find my ancestor's name in the book
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I was disappointed not to find my ancestor's name in the book.  My ancestor was Henry Wannamaker, a soldier in the New Jersey Volunteers, who came with his wife, Leah, and other family members on the ship ESTHER in the Fall Fleet.  However, other members of my family tree, Capt. John Ford and family on the ship MARY and Robert Napier and family on the ship HOPEWELL were listed in this book.  This is a valuable book, and I am glad I bought it!
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The first few pages of the book cover a brief history of Monroe County.  Within these pages are the names and years of service for sheriffs, various clerks, registers and trustees from about 1820 to 1884.  Post offices and postmasters are similarly covered.  This book does not provide an exhausted history of Monroe County, Tennessee.

Instead this publication gives biographical write-ups of specific individuals and some of their genealogy with sources where some of the information came from.  It is an interesting read, especially for genealogist like me.  Unfortunately, although my ancestors are from the East Tennessee area, I did not find any of them in this book.
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I was intrigued by the description of this book when Amazon or a book blog recommended it to me. My husband's stepmother is named Katrina (Katie) Schuyler (her maiden name).  According to her, the Schuylers were a prominent Dutch family in the founding days of New York. So I wondered if the characters with the Schuyler name were upper-class in this book, and indeed, they were. I found the 1940s romance to be satisfying.  However, I found it hard to believe that one character can so completely disappear and take on another persona.  Then come back to the location of the character's birth and upbringing as a prominent person--and no one recognizes that person! I know there was no Internet back in those days, but still people in New York can't have been THAT unaware and were bamboozled!
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The author omitted several of the founding families of this very specific area that the book claims to cover, and those families were the reason I purchased the book.
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The book is good if it's all you have.  However, if you're a member of a genealogy web site like [...], all of this same data is available thre.  I was hoping this book would go beyond what they have, and provide data from New Jersey church records, but it did not.  I was disappointed.
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The description of this software implied that transfer of Ancestry's Family Tree data would be seamless. It wasn't. The transfer was finally accomplished by exporting to a GEDCOM file and importing into FTH software. That, in itself, wasn't so terrible, but I then discovered that a massive part of the data was not imported. The log of these omissions is 45 pages long! When I contacted Support regarding this, they suggested that I use "search and replace" to re-enter the information. That will take a while. I will probably still use the software for research purposes since I really like the LDS sources; however, Ancestry recently announced that they have handed over the reins of software maintenance and development to other companies, so I will probably continue its use. In the end, I was disappointed that "ease of data transfer" wasn't more honestly described. GEDCOM is a common data transfer medium for family tree software so there was no magic solution.
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A little bias because my great, great grandfather is one of the soldiers mentioned. So many others though with quick, two-three page bios of their lives and contribution to the war. Makes me feel a little useless to read what these young doing at the same age I was rolling out of bed and doing a half-fast study job at college.
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The personalized name was upside down on the first table. The replacement didn't have my grandsons name. It was his first Christmas. I was disappointed. I like the table but, it would have even better had it had the personalized name.
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I should have made notes on each heroes real name.  During the book, the heroes stop using their hero names and just use their real name.  That obscured things some but it was still an AWESOME book.
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As the author of "The English Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson" (pub. 1996), I found it highly unprofessional that Gordon-Reed in her book omitted Randolph Jefferson, younger brother of Thomas Jefferson, who had  the same DNA as Thomas, was often at "Monticello", and was a  possible father of Eston Hemings. I must think that Randolph clouded the  issue for Gordon-Reed so she ignored him.
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I am from Kentucky but now live in North Carolina. A relative traced my family tree back two generations, but no farther. Although I had no burning interest in genealogy per se, I wondered what eastern state my relatives came from. On 1 January 2008, an aunt sent me a package with lineage traced back to Adoniram Allen b. 1734. I traced Adoniram back to England 1636, so in one fell swoop I now have part of my traced lineage. I enjoyed the Kozee book, because I am also descended from two Baker lines. Robert Baker, in whose house the first Clay County court was held, is also my ancestor. I enjoyed reading about the early history of Kentucky. Another relative is Kenus Fara Daniel, but I have not traced his parents, grandparents. Perhaps the Thomas W Daniel noted in the Clay County section will help me make future connections.
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Here's a tip - have a paper and pencil and now and then make a drawing of family trees! It's Norway in the middle-ages where I imagine the population might have been maybe a few hundred thousand perhaps? Well, lineage is very important and half the plots wouldn't be plots if no one cared about family names and lineages. In some instances I really had to turn back pages to see who exactly was whose kinsman's child out of wedlock through which servant!

(EDITED TO ADD - I just checked wikipedia and there is a family tree there. Both, the fictional characters and historical ones. Damn. Wish I had a print out of this while reading the book!)
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I am not happy to endorse the book The Ancestral Continuum #AncestralContinuum written by Natalia O'sullivan and Nicola Graydon. as the information about me is incorrectly edited not at all accurate and any attempt I've made to have it changed over the past year has so far not been done. I hope the changes will be made as promised and when they have I will feel happier about the book. Very upsetting and disappointing :(
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From the Chair of Disappointment: sad that the result of the difficult journey to find her Aunt wasn't told.
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I wish to inform everyone that the last name of Jean Baptiste should actually be spelled Charboneau not Charbonneau. I am an ancestor of the title character. There are 2 other books regarding him. One is called the Bastard and the other is called Phillipe Charboneau.  No offense to this author. Just wanted to set the record straight.
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Finding a book written by one of my ancestors? Priceless. I do wish they would have printed the frontispiece portraits, but nonetheless, I am grateful his words were preserved. May someone do the same for me . . .
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I am really disappointed.  As a descendent of Matthew Woodruff, I was disappointed that the description of the book made me feel that I could find some of my descendants like 4-5 generations back, but it is only concerned with a couple of Matthews children and their lines, not all