Until only recently (maybe a week ago) I have had very little personal interest in researching and learning the names and dates of my forebears. This has begun to change because (in an email) my mother related a story about one of my Bartholomew ancestors and some personal adversities he suffered. I’m in the process of gathering sources on the subject and may blog about it later.

In the meantime I’ve been getting acquainted with the known names in my Bartholomew line, just a little bit to my mother’s chagrin — she would like me to be working on the names in her family lines. “Be patient” is all I can say. I can only take in so much information at once and in some ways it makes sense to start with the line from which I take my surname.

With my father’s help I’ve compiled a list of names going back in time (starting with my own). The last name on the list is also a “Daniel Bartholomew.” If I understand correctly, he is the first or one of the first Bartholomews (from this line) in the Americas and he arrived here from Germany.

Daniel Hall Bartholomew
Daniel Ray Bartholomew
Calvin Henry Bartholomew
Ray Calvin Bartholomew
Joseph Bartholomew, Jr.
Joseph Bartholomew, Sr.
John Bartholomew
(General) Joseph Bartholomew
Daniel Bartholomew