{"id":396,"date":"2014-11-30T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2023-12-03T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T00:09:34","slug":"growing-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/tree-house\/growing-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing my Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Family relations can be complex and sensitive<\/strong>, and no family tree research will ever capture the full truth of people&#8217;s lives. At best, we can discover some patterns and hope to humanize names and anecdotes into stories that help us feel connected.<\/p>\n<p>My family tree goes back into the 1700s, around 250 years:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EJLove-6gen-Fan-Chart.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4087 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EJLove-6gen-Fan-Chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EJLove-6gen-Fan-Chart.png 800w, http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EJLove-6gen-Fan-Chart-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EJLove-6gen-Fan-Chart-768x383.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant names in my tree&#8217;s most recent generations are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Clarke<\/li>\n<li>Crossley<\/li>\n<li>Gillman<\/li>\n<li>Love<\/li>\n<li>Marks<\/li>\n<li>Owens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some of the significant names from the tree&#8217;s oldest generations are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MacDonald<\/li>\n<li>McConnell<\/li>\n<li>Robinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My mother Angela&#8217;s maiden name was Clarke<\/strong>, which came via Billingshurst, Sussex, UK. Her family lines are predominantly English. (I&#8217;m still learning about her father&#8217;s family and why he came to Canada at the tender age of 12.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>My father&#8217;s name, Love,<\/strong> can be traced back to 18th century Scotland. There&#8217;s a lot of Scottish blood in his lines.<\/p>\n<p>To explore all the names in my family database, you can go to this password-protected page: <a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/tree-house\/interactive-person-name-explorer\/\">Interactive Name Explorer<\/a><br \/>\n<em>(The password to open it is on this page you&#8217;re now reading. L<\/em><em>ook above for the second word in the very first paragraph in this page.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Tree &#8220;Pedigree&#8221; charts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EJohnLove-Pedigree-Chart-Aug212021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EJohnLove-Pedigree-Chart-Aug212021<\/a><em> (Adobe PDF)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Direct Line chart, from Clanranald to me:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Direct-Line-Chart-Clanranald-ErnestJohnLove.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Direct-Line-Chart-Clanranald-ErnestJohnLove<\/a><em> (Adobe PDF)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family relations can be complex and sensitive, and no family tree research will ever capture the full truth of people&#8217;s lives. At best, we can discover some patterns and hope to humanize names and anecdotes into stories that help us feel connected. My family tree goes back into the 1700s, around 250 years: Significant names &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/tree-house\/growing-family-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing my Family Tree<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4078,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/4446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}