I discovered new information that is exciting news in our William Price family tree. This is my grandfather's line. A lawyer friend I met through the law school is Joe Bentley from Newport Beach. My grandfather's sister married Richard Bentley in the Nauvoo days. Joe is a descendant of that Bentley, so we have a common ancestor in the father of William Price. William's grandfather was named John Price. Our records continued on in the John Price line but we had never been able to trace his wife's family. We had heard that her name Fanny Constance was an assumed name. It turns out that she was also a Price (Fanny Constance Price) and that her line has been tied to a Price family in a nearby village. One email message I saw indicated that a professional genealogy company had been employed for a high fee and they were able to make the connections. So, each of my children and my siblings should go onto Family Search/Family Tree to see the new names that extend several generations beyond Fanny Constance Price (my grandfather's maternal grandmother). There are three more generations in the family line for her father to the 1670s and two more generations for her mother to the 1680s and 1690s. There are also new names in my grandfather's paternal Price line going back to a couple of families named Yearsley and to a Daniel Price in the 1650s. You will notice that there are all kinds of Price names in each of these lines which made finding the correct ancestral lines more difficult. You can tell that many of these names are newly identified because their temple ordinance work has been performed in the last couple of years and some of the names have been reserved for temple ordinances but have not yet been completed.
All of this illustrates the value of the new Church family history programs and how helpful the Family Tree software is to each of us when someone tied into these same family lines has pursued professional help and shares the information with the rest of us. We all benefit from the easy way of keeping up with information others have posted. You will also notice that something is wrong in the William Buddings Price line because the Buddings line loops back to a Thomas Buddings born in 1812. This is called a looping problem and needs to be fixed some day.
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