I only created my new blog just the other day, but already found a probable connection with distant relative on my mother's Staats side, a fellow family researcher in Pennsylvania.
While creating my blog, I was joining relevant blogs and genealogy groups on Facebook, including the New Netherland Colonial Dutch Settlement Genealogy Group. After posting a query about my Abraham Staats ancestor, I was contacted by the above-mentioned gentleman. Despite the fact there seemed to be a zillion Abraham Staats floating around the New World then, by comparing information this researcher and I do indeed appear to be related, although one missing record on my side must be verified. I must notify another relation about this development, who by lucky circumstance was a close childhood friend while we were growing up in Venice, Florida.
In the meantime I also joined a Morgan family group. My maternal great-grandmother Clarinda (Clara) Morgan Staats (1851-1939) married William C. Staats (1856-1937). By another coicindence, this same Staats kinsman also has a PA-based Morgan in his family tree in the same date range. His great grandfather x3 was a gold gilder and printer of presidential portraits etc. in Philadelphia in the early to mid- 1800s. So related or not, fascinating stuff.
As for genealogy tips, although it can often contain family link misinformation, I do like to trawl through the website Find A Grave, where I found the above grave images of Clara Morgan and her husband, William Clinton Staats, both buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.
www.cemeteryrecordsonline.com
