...start on another line. When I made it through the last parish and didn't find Jan, I decided to add a field to the database that accounted for search the entirety of 1866 and 1867 in each parish, and thus get to go through them each again. Thankfully, the vast majority of parishes have an index book that I can search through, which is how I found 1866 Jan in the first place. He's still looking to be my best match, and as 1866 matches up with the rest of my census records, that may well be him. Radobytce, the village 1866 Jan is from, is just under 11 miles from Písek, well within the district, and even close enough to justify Písek being named as the closest town on his passenger list. All in all, I have a plan to move forward from here, but it was still time for a break.
For quite a while now, Jamie and I have been trying to get his mother out to the Family History Library, as she's been tracing back her side of their family. There's one particular line that's proving elusive, their descent from a Ian Esom Farris, originally of the Rutherglen and Edinburgh areas of Scotland, but who emigrated to what is now North Carolina in the 1660s. A lot of people seem to be looking for this particular ancestor, but all the information is what was gleaned from a family Bible that burned in a house fire several decades ago. What I'm setting out to do is verify what I can, see what else I can uncover, and determine if there's a way to get the line further back. It's a challenge that will give me a much-needed break from the Vanicek line, and get me brownie points with the future MIL at the same time. What can I say? I love adventure.
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