The Swiss Connection
October 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
But this is only by marriage. It seems that Our Great Great Aunt Marjorie Ann Chapman had a daughter, Dora Mae Hatton, who married James Henry Wesley Mills. They had a son, Rufus Alonzo Mills. born in Franklin, Georgia in 1918. I had the Baptism and Confirmation performed for him on the recent Ward youth trip to the temple. I was checking to see if Newfamily registered the work (it did), and I was excited to see that his name connected to bunches of others going back and back into Switzerland to a Rudolph Schneider of St. Gallen, Switzerland (he was born in 1677). That wasn’t all. Other lines went into England. There was a Joseph Smith among them. He was born in 1612. Now, these people are not our blood kin. All of their ordinances have been completed by others to whom they ARE blood kin. Rufus is attached to us by marriage to our distant cousin, Dora Mae. This program has been such a blessing to me. I cannot do much of anything. I can’t drive or cook, or do much of anything else, but genealogy is something that I can do!!
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