 | GenealogyMy latest interest is genealogy and family history. I'm fortunate that our family had a historian, Reno G. Tombaugh, who was able to trace our family history, and roots, back to our earliest known immigrant ancestor, who left Germany for Holland, then the “new world” in 1726. The findings were published into a book in the 1930's. The contents of the book have later been published electronically by Wendell C. Tombaugh and his wife Jean Cragun Tombaugh, who have written a number of genealogy works. The Tombaugh History (PDF) and other works have been made available through the Fulton County, Indiana, Library. Wendell has also written his autobiography, Every Day an Adventure (PDF) with a tremendous amount of detail of some of the history of the day, and several accounts of my grandfather, who was Wendell's cousin, as well as my great-grandfather and his father. I'm trying to convert the written history into a family tree, and add updated information where ever possible. I've been converting the text of the Tombaugh History into an outline, using a word processor, to make it easier to work through. I've worked both backwards from me, finding a reference to my grandfather in the book, as well as working from the beginning of the book down through the descendants. I've finally figured out where they link in the middle, after sorting out several generations in a row with “George's!” This is not at all complete, but in somewhat rough form, I now have a Tombaugh Family Tree. |
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