Adding descendants to my family tree

The Matheson part of my family tree needs more branches

Back in February, I wrote about the need to concentrate on adding descendants to my family tree in order to help identify DNA matches. I haven't gotten very far with that aim, although my Ancestry family tree is a bit better than the information I have on my family tree software. Because I was dragging my feet on adding collateral branches to my tree, the first talk I attended at RootsTech went by the title of An Ever-Growing Tree: Descendency Research and DNA Matches. I thought that it would give me a push in the right direction but so far it hasn't. If the talk was available online, I'd watch it again. Unfortunately the only reminders I have are the notes I jotted down in class so now I'm searching my RootsTech playlists for any talk concentrating on the same basic ground.

I did come back from Salt Lake City with some incentive to start adding collateral relatives to one line though. I found an obit for my 3 x great uncle, Alexander Matheson which named the relatives who attended his funeral in Letcher, South Dakota. Among his nine grandchildren there were two women named: Mrs J Ruhe of Sioux Falls, SD and Mrs R L Eagen of LaCrosse, Wis. I think I've figured out who Mrs Ruhe is but Mrs R L Eagen is another story. I think I'll start researching the Matheson line to add Alexander Matheson's descendents so that I understand how the named grandchildren fit into the family especially the hard to find, Mrs R L Eagen!

Sources:

Newspapers.com – obituary of Alexander Matheson in Owen Sound Sun Times of December 18, 1920