Notes from the mine - digging into our Chugg Family History.

I have tried to stay consistent with my projects; I originally set out to find the "whole other family" that I learned about after finding John Chugg buried in Ogden, Utah. I was new to that area and did not know that John Chugg had been widowed and then had married a second wife with whom he had settled  the Harrisville and Farr West area of Weber County.

What an education and adventure when I did learn of these kinfolk, and of the extended families through John's brothers and sisters. I am rich with Chugg heritage!

Because I had set my sights on those family members descended from the pioneer Chugg families I have done little in the way of exploring the extended family remaining in Devonshire, England, or Glamorganshire, Wales.

Well, some time back I found a note on the Chugg Clan group in Facebook from a Chugg kinsman in Illinois asking for assistance with locating a line that included Scotland, Canada, and part of the USA (not Utah or Idaho) and maybe Australia.

My own family pedigree record does not match up with his exactly, but they do intersect. We will have to discuss just where as we get to know the family lines back about three hundred years.

Three hundred years ago does not seem as far as it used to. 1716? More than a few generations, but recent enough to have complete dates in some cases. That is something to make a fuss of!

So I spent a good part of a Saturday, which had been planned to work in a different family project, following up in a new vein of Chugg ore. I think this is a good find, and count on increasing my wealth.

Our wealth! Get out your family history tools and join in. Chris Seemann of the Chicago area has pictures from his late mother and wants help to possibly link these up with names, or to follow up the lines that link his family into your own. Was his Richard a child of John and Mary Parmynter Chugg or Richard and Susan Harris Chugg.

Suddenly I have a blank mind - was it Richard and Alice Coats? Well, back to work!