Starting from my father Peter Adams Sutherland, going up the patrilineal line, we can go straight to John William Sutherland (1735-1817) before we lose the trail on Find-A-Grave. We go father back on MyHeritage.com.
Starting from my father's mother, Susan Adams Sutherland, going up her patrilineal line, we go back to Asa Adams (Sr.) (1729-1826).
Both these ancestors are 7 generations back from my generation.
On my mother's mother's patrilineal line, starting from Dennis Frank Reeder, we only go back to his father, William Manderson Reeder.
But if we follow, William Reeder's wife, Diana Elivra Park Reeder up her patrilineal line, let's see how far we get. Not far, just to her father, Spruce McCoy Park. But in MyHeritage.com we find that Diana's mother is Martha Reed. And though not connected, Find-A-Grave has Martha Reed, and from her we get to her mother Catherine Reed (1781-1841), where the trail goes dark again.
(Martha's brother John, and her parent's Catherine and David are buried in the Rowan County, Reed Graveyard along the Yadkin river, which I visited last month.)
Most of the lines I tried to follow on my mother's mother's father's lines didn't go far on Find-A-Grave, not that they aren't there, just that the search function is difficult to get direct hits on, so it takes finding them through alternate routes.
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