Such a Feeling

How the time flies when you are having fun. It has been a while since my last update and for many reasons, a few actually decent and not made up to make me feel good about myself. But all I can say about the last two weeks is what a ride it has been. I was able to travel to Salt Lake and go fiching (notice the misspelling) for ancestors. After about four and a half hours of looking all I was able to retrieve from my nets (fishing pun) was the Baptismal/Christening date for Walter Sylvanus Parsons, 27 Aug 1860, which means his actual birth date falls between Aug 1, 1860 and Aug 27, 1860, pretty good, eh? The significance of this is that I am able to send away to England for a birth record that will have his parents names on, though I have them it will be cool to have a copy of the record. From this also I can place the beginning of his travels from England to Utah and possibly beyond, I know I may have found a new chapter to add to my book. Aside from finding information on Walter I was able to see a Church census for the 6th Ward Pioneer Stake in Salt Lake that has George and Martha on it, though Martha had passed at this time I was still able to see her name on it. An interesting note on this tid-bit of information is that the 6th Ward is one of the who's who of Salt Lake at the time, Erastus Snow to name one. So some might look and see that for four and a half hours of work and I get two pieces of information it was not time well spent, but I beg to differ. From that time I was able to see places that I do not have to look now and also some good leads as of where to look to gain information. Speaking of leads, I have found that I have an ancestor from Leeds England, the first confirmed ancestor, but he is a husband of a cousin of a cousin type of a thing but I am still claiming him, for now. Also I learned today that to be able to go forward you may have to take some steps backwards in time or sideways in families to contact those who may have some information on where you are going or want to wind up. This being said I may not do so much direct Parsons family work but will follow the line of Louisa Parsons Leitch, she was born in Salt Lake and then passed in South Central Idaho, I am guessing. Now knowing that I am on my way to fill in the gaps and hopefully find some useful information by sidestepping across lines and moving forward in time. It is amazing how much I have found, or assume I have found but it is all worth it. Well that is all for now and hopefully I can find some success fiching again. Also I found some cool stuff about my York line, I want to go back to Georgia to dig around some in Rabun County, at one point we owned that place it seems.