Trying to Figure out a Project for http://www.geni.com/people/Narcissa-Young/6000000037492836810

Having trouble with the name links -- here she is --

Narcissa Young

I stuck her in "Real Life Love Stories" cause that's the closet I could get to anything -- but really I was thinking about how Narcissa and John loved that dog, not really about how they loved each other.

:-)

I think an project devoted to East Texas communities would be useful to have with sub projects for the various communities.

It's a great story.

Oooh, that would work nicely. And I've got a Lot of Stuff to start out with.

I will do that, Hatte Blejer. It makes sense.

I started projects for Poland, Lithuania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Ohio early settlements / towns where my family lived.

There are many great models for town or regional projects on Geni.

Erica Howton, Eldon Lester Clark and Private User for example. The Mormon Pioneer projects that Randy Stebbing led are amazing. And there are great New Amsterdam projects led by George J. Homs and Private User.

I have found regional and town projects very helpful since in remote and small villages or new settlements, families were often related by blood and marriage when they settled and continued to intermarry and do business together.

Faustine Darsey on hiatus has Texas roots and worked with me on several Texas projects as well. I don't know if she has any connection to East Texas however.

We do have a project for tough frontiers women, I'll try and find it.

What I find so cool about projects is how it adds dimensionality. So if you're tracking family trees, definitely geography is helpful. When you're looking at personality, analogy is helpful !

I have some "treed by a panther" stories published as told by Arkansas cousins. Plus my direct guy in Tennessee had bear treeing dogs.

I am very happy. Have figured out a couple of places to connect Narcissa on in.

One of the things I also enjoy is how the story got handed down from generation to generation. I only know it because one of her descendants told it, in a collection of Trinity County family stories and genealogy.

Legendary Heroines
http://www.geni.com/projects/Legendary-Heroines/1024

Or maybe create a companion project to Early American Heroines
http://www.geni.com/projects/Early-American-Heroines/1234

I think not Legendary heroines -- unless legendary means "the family told the story a lot" rather than "whole lots of people told the story a lot."

However. Am I amused by the idea of putting Narcissa in with the likes of Joan of Arc and the Queen of Sheba? Yes. Yes, I am.

Erica Howton sent me the link to Pioneer Women, which seems appropriate.

thank you all! I am glad I asked. Always good to have lots of brains thinking up possibilities.

Gotta disagree with you there. Legendary is legendary ;)

But, you might be right that the people who started those projects might not have envisioned such a broad scope.

What about this? Start a new project for "Everyday Heroines" or something like that? Start a discussion thread. Collect the stories. Get people to talk about the heroines their family traditions remember.

The Eastep name is nagging at me; does it derive from Estep? I do have East Texas (Texas geography impaired).

Everyday heroes is also nagging at me. Might have had an idea for something like that too. Always looking for ways to celebrate the (extra) ordinary in the family.

I don't know -- in what I have for her, I simply know in this particular profile that the family gives that as her maiden name.

In my Giant Volume of Stuff Families From Trinity County Say About Themselves, there are no Easteps that Narcissa could be clearly connected to.

There are Eastepps -- Clyde Eastepp and Alma Patterson Eastepp, living in New Mexico in 1925 when their son J.D. was born -- Clyde's father, Daniel, had lived near Pennington, in Trinity County.

That's all I've got.

Justin and Erica, I think an Everyday Heroines project is a good idea.

Also I am putting her in the Pioneer Women. Also I am starting a Trinity County project, under an East Texas umbrella. And putting her there.

Right after I finish up with some of these Welsh guys..........

Eastep? Texas? I had an Estep step-mother. Written Eastep on a couple of scraps in my dad's papers. That might be a project for another day.

:)

I found a tombstone for Narcissa Young. There are several Eastepp's buried in that same cemetery.

Also, just for fun, I looked in the DAR database for variations of the name Eastep. I found an interesting lady, named MILLEY EASTEP who married in NC and died in AL. She was the wife of William Spear who fought in the American Revolution.
http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full...

Oh, thank you, Faustine Darsey on hiatus!

Lovely to start getting her better connected into the other East Texas folks!