Our Ancestors
For my family: past, present and future.
Oftentimes, trying to get a good picture of a particular time and place takes me off onto wonderful tangents, learning everything I can about the Quakers, the Norwegian farmer's life, German history before both world wars, the Irish Potato Famine, etc. I point this out because one, well I love history, and two, it slows me down getting around to posting more of our tree.
My research may never be complete but I am satisfied that I'm taking every reasonable precaution to ensure that the information I provide is accurate, to the best of my knowledge and ability.
Since this site is basically for my relatives, I won't take the time to cite all references but only ones that I'd like to point out for some significance or another. I do however, have the copies either in digital form or paper. It's a significant amount of data so if anyone is curious about a particular event, just ask me for it and I'll be happy to send it to you. Generally my sources are from ancestry.com, the Burlington County Historical Society, the Camden County Historical Society, the Gloucester County Historical Society, and from various and sundry places around the web.
Also, I got tons of information from written notes from my conversations with Aunt Hazel (Haines side) as well as lists she made of births and deaths, for she was the family historian, and from my cousin Janet Cianci, who remembers my grandparents and has supplied several photos for this site. On my father's side, the Grossmicks, my Aunt Marian, supplied the original names of my Norwegian ancestors (a gold mine!). My sister, Helen Grossmick Flynn, who also has a great memory, provided lots of pictures for this site and puts up with me dragging her through graveyards in the searing heat and shushing her a hundred times while combing through stacks of documents in the GCHS. Many thanks to my cousin Debbie Haines Palmer and her husband Bob Palmer for starting me on this journey in the first place. Bob is quite the seasoned genealogist and seeing their website years ago actually got me interested.
I hope you find this as interesting as I do! This is still a work in progress and I could always use your help, so feel free to comment, share your stories, photos, whatever you'd like to contribute.
Gail Grossmick Mitchell
Don't forget to click the photos to enlarge the view!
Oftentimes, trying to get a good picture of a particular time and place takes me off onto wonderful tangents, learning everything I can about the Quakers, the Norwegian farmer's life, German history before both world wars, the Irish Potato Famine, etc. I point this out because one, well I love history, and two, it slows me down getting around to posting more of our tree.
My research may never be complete but I am satisfied that I'm taking every reasonable precaution to ensure that the information I provide is accurate, to the best of my knowledge and ability.
Since this site is basically for my relatives, I won't take the time to cite all references but only ones that I'd like to point out for some significance or another. I do however, have the copies either in digital form or paper. It's a significant amount of data so if anyone is curious about a particular event, just ask me for it and I'll be happy to send it to you. Generally my sources are from ancestry.com, the Burlington County Historical Society, the Camden County Historical Society, the Gloucester County Historical Society, and from various and sundry places around the web.
Also, I got tons of information from written notes from my conversations with Aunt Hazel (Haines side) as well as lists she made of births and deaths, for she was the family historian, and from my cousin Janet Cianci, who remembers my grandparents and has supplied several photos for this site. On my father's side, the Grossmicks, my Aunt Marian, supplied the original names of my Norwegian ancestors (a gold mine!). My sister, Helen Grossmick Flynn, who also has a great memory, provided lots of pictures for this site and puts up with me dragging her through graveyards in the searing heat and shushing her a hundred times while combing through stacks of documents in the GCHS. Many thanks to my cousin Debbie Haines Palmer and her husband Bob Palmer for starting me on this journey in the first place. Bob is quite the seasoned genealogist and seeing their website years ago actually got me interested.
I hope you find this as interesting as I do! This is still a work in progress and I could always use your help, so feel free to comment, share your stories, photos, whatever you'd like to contribute.
Gail Grossmick Mitchell
Don't forget to click the photos to enlarge the view!
For those looking for the Grossmick / Erickson side of my family, please visit http://grossmick.weebly.com/