User blog:California Gray/James Gray on Familypedia

My husband, Marc Roddin, entered the information about James Gray born 1804 in Scotland, immigrated approximately 1829, died 1868 buried in Yuba City, California. Today is the anniversary of his death date which was October 3, 1868.

I learned about Familypedia a few weeks ago at our monthly meeting  of the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group. The great thing about Familypedia is that you can change it or add to it just like in Wikipedia. Later we will add a page for his wife, Mary Ann Carr, and his son, James Carr Gray. It would be great to see pages for William Jackson Gray and George Washington Gray since a few of us descendants have had contact with each other.

It would also be wonderful to find other descendants of James Gray. It is great to find 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousins especially since we are all descended from the same immigrant ancestor who came to the USA about 180 years ago!

I would love to go to Scotland one day and find the ancestral home of James Gray and know the identity of his parents. Would you also like to do this?

James Gray does have a common name which makes him difficult to track down with certainty but I believe that one of us will find that bit of information that will be the key to the mystery of the parents of both James Gray and Mary Ann Carr.

Go Grays!

Barbara Gray Roddin