Greetings, fellow genealogists, friends, and relatives! My name is Kimberly Latta and I have been researching my family history since 1998. I started by asking my grandparents to tell me their stories and followed up, long before on-line genealogy was a thing, reading books and microfilm and microfiche in the lofty halls of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. My private tree on ancestry.com, "A Latta-Hanson and related families" [
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/15337791/recent] currently contains 15,063 persons and 6,834 photographs. The Gedcom is too large to import for comparison to wikitree and I am currently in the process of rebuilding that tree here. I have also contributed much information to the family tree at FamilySearch. I am happy to answer questions and eager to collaborate.
I am a retired professor of English and scholar of the literature, history and culture of 17th- and early 18th-century England and America. Nearly all of my ancestors come from Europe. My father's ancestors nearly all came from Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Germany, in the 17th- and 18th-centuries, while my mother's people, who lived in Norway, Sweden and Finland, came over in the middle of the 19th century. I have had my DNA tested at ancestry.com and have run my MtDNA at Family Tree DNA.
Sincerely, Kimberly Latta
