TWENTY TWO - Hello Maternal Grandma!!!

My new Treasure, a photo of my Grandma "ANNA MAE (Pickerell) ELLIS JENNINGS"

Maternal Grandma "Anna Mae and Lenora" (my mom)

One of the nicest things about finding some of my Maternal family, is the Treasures they have shared with me. One of my "First" cousins used to research the family Genealogy a few decades ago with her aunt. During the "Jennings Reunion" Oct 2018, my cousin gave me this photograph of my Maternal Grand mother with my mom as a baby. I was thrilled at my first glimpse of "ANNA MAE ELLIS Jennings" with my mom LENORA. She gave birth to 9 children, and 6 survived. My grandfather ROY Ellis JENNINGS died within 2 weeks of my mothers birth. A few years later she passed away from Cancer. Grandma certainly had a tough life.

This photo sparked my interest into Anna Mae's life

It's such a weird journey. I get tired of looking for family members and coming up empty.... then I see this photo and feel like I "Must" find out more about my Grandma. I need to know her, her struggles and get her essence. It's difficult because there is No one alive who knew my Grandma or Grandpa. There are many records on ANCESTRY, $ well spent on my membership

SO I started on a crazy search for any documents, records and DNA matches that will connect me to all things Anna Mae. I am happy to say I was able to trace back and find my Grandma's Mom, Dad and sister! I also found a few people on ANCESTRY.CA who are direct descendants of my Grandma's sister. I've written a few of them, but no reply yet. I'm using the time to search online for more info. Four times this week I have stayed up searching until 3 am - feel I'm on a roll.

Thank Gawd my search "Angels" are still with me

I think the biggest chance of success is to have folks who keep you motivated and give a helping hand. I am fortunate to have "2" such Face Book Angels, Tom Burk and Lou Hans.  Lou kept pushing me, saying "never give up Yvette, Keep moving forward" It is what I needed to hear when the search got too hard for me....and Tom Burk, well he is Amazing. Seems he has a built in Radar of when my interest wains. All of a sudden I will get a few emails with New information. OR he will ask a few questions which ignites my interest again. If you really want to find out your genealogy, join a few FaceBook Search groups, write a lot of letters on ANCESTRY, My Heritage and any other group. I still have a long way to go, but I feel blessed to have found so many family members. 

MOM is still hiding...but I "will" find her ~ stay tuned!