My Trails into the Past

At first, I couldn’t think of any mistakes I have made in the last thirty years of genealogy research. I’m not saying I haven’t made any mistakes—I just cannot remember them. In reviewing the database that I keep in RootsMagic, I thought to compare my records with the FamilySearch Family Tree for my Hork/Horoch line, who lived in Westphalia, Germany before my great-grandfather, Johann Anton Hork emigrated to the United States. His brother, Albert, and sister, Clementine, also emigrated. Perhaps more Horks have come, but I haven’t located them yet. I located John Anton Hork in the FamilySearch Family Tree as the son of Joseph Heinrich Horoch and Maria Katharine Trösster. [1] Most of the entries have been made by myself or my second cousin’s wife. We are probably the only ones researching this family. I found a major mistake in my own database as I compared the death date of Joseph Heinrich Horoch in the FamilySearch tree and my database. The tree listed his death date as 5 Oct 1847 in...