Monday, March 10, 2008

Fisher Family History

A month, or so, ago John and Jan rediscovered a cache of Fisher family documents that our father, Paul Tucker had kept in a steel file box. John and I were chatting on the phone when Jan was going through the box and John started calling off the items to me. It became apparent to us that there was a gold mine there in the form of birth certificates, marriage licenses and etc. John and Jan were planning a nostalgic visit to Gringo Pass RV Park, where Roses and Tuck had wintered, in Lukeville, AZ, on the Mexican border. They decided to bring the steel box to Green Valley where we could go through the documents together. They arrived on Sunday, March 2nd and then went on to Lukeville on Wednesday, the 5th. We now can trace, with some documentation gaps that we will work to fill in, back to 1781 on Grandfather Fisher’s side, 1658 on Grandmother Fisher’s side, 1858 (unbroken line of documentation) on Rose’s mother’s side and 1873 on Rose’s birth father’s side. I scanned all the items that were pertinent and have burned four CDs containing all our family documents and photo albums. I’m sending a CD along with some original material that was lent to me some time ago to John and Sister Mary Margaret and a CD to Ann and to Lisa. We’ll keep you all posted as we continue to make progress.

5 comments:

Wendi said...

Wow!!! How special to be able to trace our family back that far! If you have an extra copy of the CD, I would love to have one. Keep up the great work!!!! Love, Wendi

Uncle John said...

Just a note to add. I will make a copy of the CD that Reed sends to me and give a copy to Wendi. I guess the four who get the CD from Reed can make copies and give them to their children..Reed has really put a lot of effort into this project and it is really comming together... Thanks Bro....

Leigh said...

That is really exciting. I'll be eager to learn more. Love you all.

Anonymous said...

Gosh Reed and John, How great that the steel box turned up. Thank you Reed for putting the CD together. Interesting!!

Ann said...

Wow! Can't wait to see it, Dad!