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Hap Vincent
Hap Vincent
My dad was Wilburn Glenwood "Hap" Vincent (1919-1993). His history is at my Vincent lineage website, VincentFamily.org. CLICK HERE to view that profile page which tells more about him and his history.
This is the "MyKinFolks" website, dedicated to sharing more about my ancestors than just the basic facts. Both my parents were intested in their ancestors' history. CLICK HERE to go to my mother's page to learn more about her and my brothers, Rick and Larry, as well as a little about their families.
My dad fascinated me with the way he documented his family information when I was just a kid. That seems to run in my dad's family. My cousin, Oakley Kevin Vincent, told me he got serious about family research when he was only 11 years old!
Thanks to my dad, I got to interview both my parents, my siblings, his siblings, their families, and recorded their names, birth , marriage, and death dates and places, and information about their wives and children long before most of them passed away.
However, I'm leaving it up to my children and their families along with my younger cousins to keep track of all their descendants. I'm hoping my children and grandchildren get to know these cousins and don't lose touch.
Dad got interested in his family's history before I was born. Here is the pedigree he showed us when I was growing up. He wrote it on vellum using a drafting pen & India ink from a drafting class he took in college.
Dad's Pedigree - late 1940s
(click for a larger picture)
When I was young, my parents took me on trips to ask relatives about our ancestors. After I was grown, they went with me on trips I planned to visit their cousins, aunts, and uncles, to learn more about them and their families.
The first family research trip I can recall was when I was probably between 8 and 12 years of age. Dad took me with him to visit Maud McLure Kelly. My dad's mother, Oma Seay Vincent, and Maud were cousins. Maud was also kin to my grandfather and knew a lot about the Vincents. My dad's mother and Maud helped him compile the information on the pedigree chart mentioned above.
Oma was close to my brother, Rick Vincent, who was 6 years old when I was born. Oma took him to New York City in 1944. CLICK HERE to see a photo of them there. Unfortunately, by the time I came along, she already had 17 previous grandchildren.
My dad's parents both died when I was 8 years old. My mom's parents died before I was born. Family research became very important to me as a way of learning more about the grandparents I never knew.
One of my favorite ways of learning more about my ancestors was to interview my parents and others about them. I recorded some of our interviews. CLICK HERE to listen to one of them I had with my father.
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