Interesting Connections

So I am going through new.familysearch.org and am mostly looking up names and trying to get familiar with people and then googling and trying to find pictures, ect. Scott's mom side of the family are related to Kimballs. His grandma was a Kimball and they are decendencts of Heber C. Kimball through his wife Ann Alice Gheen from their son Daniel Heber Kimball.

 

Left: Heber C. Kimball     Center: Ann Alice Gheen     Right: Daniel Heber Kimball

In my search on google for Ann Alice, an article about Spencer W. Kimball came up from him describing Ann Alice (his grandmother).

Unlike Scott, I do not have a direct line from any member of the Quorum of the Twelve or a Prophet, but I do have an awesome Bishop who was the grandfather of Spencer W. Kimball, Edwin D. Woolley. When I found out that Scott was a decendent from Heber C. Kimball, one of my thoughts was "How cool! Our kids now have both grandparents of Spencer W. Kimball in their family lines."

Left: Edwin D. Woolley      Right: His wife Mary Wickersham (mother of Rachel Emma Woolley)

One of Edwin D. Woolley's daughters, Rachel Emma Woolley, is my 3rd great-grandma. I can't find a picture of her online right now, but I know there are some somewhere and I know we have a lot of information on her because she kept a journal that was published. (So more information about Rachel Emma Woolley coming in future posts!) One of his other daughters, Olive, married the brother of Daniel Heber Kimball, Andrew.

Andrew & Olive

Olive isn't from the same wife as Rachel, so it isn't a perfect triangle or anything, but I was just hit by this silly connection that my 3rd-great-grandma's sister married the brother of Scott's 3rd-great-grandpa. Our ancestors were in-laws. :) :) And their son was a Prophet, and had awesome lineage that my husband and I both come from. :) :)

Or not so much...

Obviously my goals to do family history failed miserably. But I am renewing my vigor! I did look up things in New Family Search on both sides right after I posted (a year ago), but I really felt like this is something I need to start doing more (again) during General Conference. So here I am. And I am really emailing this link out to people so I can get information!

What I want this blog to be:

• I really have a desire to learn more about my family & my husbands family. I want to know who our ancestors were. (Partially because I am still having children and I like using family names. You can't use family names if you don't know them!) 
• I want to be more involved in family history and temple work. I want to make sure all the work is done.
• I want families to be able to use this as a resource so that we can all work together. I need family members to share stories and pictures so I can get to know not only our ancestors, but also those who are living now. I want to network as families because I truly believe that families are the most important thing.

I'm sure I have other thoughts as well, but I wanted to have a post written so that I could actually email this link to my dear family. Because I'm doing it for from my side, I know that not everything I post will apply to everyone I am emailing. I have a large family. But my plan is to have each Sunday a month be a line. The Ball side, the Stewart side, the Sackett side, and the Brunner side. That way if you only care about one line you don't have to read it every week. :) 

I really am excited about this idea. I also know that I am a good one for intentions and not always the best at follow through. I will not be perfect at updating. But I also know that the more information I get from others, the more I can share with everyone.

Thank you. And please, please let me know if you have done any of our family history and if there is a chance that I could get information/pictures/anything from you.