I first began working on my family's genealogy years ago before Ancestry.com or the internet as we know it today even existed. At the time, pretty much all you had to go on were family bibles, sorted family stories, fuzzy memories and trips to the local library genealogy room. But my journey of discovering Jacob Hoover began the day I gave up Facebook.
Having wasted countless hours reading pointless status updates, posting pointless updates, and looking at cats, I decided to use the interweb for good and clicked on Ancestry.com. to see what I could find. Quickly I discovered a tough lesson: just because it's on Ancestry.com doesn't mean it's so. Aside from the archival documents available on the site which are fairly accurate, it became quite clear people will often make leaps and links without much thought.
I, too, quickly jumped on the bandwagon of reckless relations and marveled at all of the cool ancestors I never knew I had. This compelled me to prepare a registration form to join the lineal organization Sons of the American Revolution. What I found was membership depended on more than an Ancestry.com pedigree chart and my good word. Thus, I was pushed deeper into the realm of genealogy research, scanning Census sheets, probate papers, court proceedings, newspaper clippings, church records and the last will's and testaments of many ancestors. It's become both a passion and an obsession.
So after many months of research and compiling certified documentation, I've come to discover an ancestor of mine who fought in the American Revolution (plus, several other ancestors who will be listed as research is completed). This website/blog is dedicated to him and the many others who toiled in the early days of our country to make us who and what we are now.
With that being said, here is my connection to the American Patriot, Jacob Hoover.
Todd Hollst
