I’ve started a new website dedicated to Sartor family history. In my head I know that I’m too busy to take this on. But I just have this nagging feeling that I need to do it. I know how, I have the resources. If I don’t do it, who will? So I did it. Because the Sartor line was the first line I started researching with my dad in the 1990’s. It seems like a lifetime ago, and it catapulted me into a world I never planned on living in: I became a professional genealogist. I got hooked on the pursuit of evidence and I decided I wanted to do that for a living. So I did. For several years. And during that time I learned so much, but didn’t actually get much of my own research done.

So I’ve returned to my roots. I invite everyone interested in Sartor Family History to participate. The site is free and open to anyone who has Sartor ancestors, and their related lines. The site needs to remain evidence-based. This is my only requirement. I want to record, and document, our Sartor family history because I get the sense that this has been important to my Sartor ancestors since the 1600’s; they just didn’t always have access to great technology or preservation. So I’ll push the effort forward the best I can in honor of, and gratitude for, them.

The Sartor Search

I wish I had met Juanita Sample Taylor before she died. I need to make an effort to reach out to her remaining family to see if they have carried on her work, or retained any of her files. Ms. Juanita Sample Taylor was the author of The Sartor Search, an extremely detailed genealogy of John Peter Sartor’s descendants.

I come into the Sartor family at George Washington Sartor, who migrated west to Indiana as an orphaned child. We believe he came to Indiana with his older sister, Mary Ann Sartor Hollingsworth (wife of Thomas Hollingsworth), who may have been George’s half sister (through a different mother) rather than full sister. But that part is still a bit murky. I’ll be posting more about George and his family later.

For now, I invite anyone who’s interested to visit the new Sartor family history website and participate. I look forward to seeing what we can build together.