Family tree

I have spent the past four months working on my family tree. It started out (this time, I had worked on it in 2004 also) with two occurrences.
1. My basement flooded and I had to dry out all my pics and family info passed down from my grandmother, Margaret Clark Pierce.
2. Right about the same time, my second cousins were on facebook discussing our great great grandfather, Reese Jones and his lineage.

Well, smarty me chimed in and claimed I had the missing key, my grandmother's notes. That sent me on a whirlwind, virtual world tour of our family dating back to 1676 on my mother's side and 1848 on my father's side.

I've been to Ireland, Wales, Prussia, and Germany. Yet, Reese Jones still sits lonely.

I found the other day, that it pays to open yourself up. I was talking to my sister, Tammy, and telling her about the dilemma. She thought, much like I originally did, that she'd jump on the computer and find him in a matter of minutes. 4 hours later, our visit was concluding with no additional info on him, but some funny, interesting facts about our other relatives.

She has taken on the task of a future visit to Mahanoy City, PA to find Reese's birth certificate. I was able to find what book his marriage license to my great great grandmother, Susanna M. Snyder was in. Hoping that the marriage license may even provide info to send us on a new virtual trek. I'm glad she has volunteered. I live over 5 hours away and she is a mere 1 1/2 hours.

If any of my relatives know any information regarding our line, please contact me. I will be happy to pass on my ancestry.com u/n & p/w so you can see what I have and compare and/or add to the tree. When you contact me, please let me know how we are related. I don't want to just give this info to anyone.

You can view my photo in my albums to read Gram's notes about the lineage. He was supposedly raised by an aunt, Gussie Swanson nee Friend. I don't know her formal name, so I've been unable to find any census records on him. The first census he appears in is 1900. I have not found him in an 1880 census. He was born in 1793 to a Sarah Jones. She later married (no husband name) and had two more children Franklin and Miriam. This differs a bit from other family notes, but I have the Gussie Swanson info that no one else seems to mention.

There was a Sarah Jones age 15 in the 1870 census, she was the domestic servant to a William and Mary Jones from Wales. There were three or four boarders in the home. She was originally from Ashland, PA. William and the boarders were all miners.

Hopefully, this family mystery will someday soon be solved and the multitudes of Clark/Jones descendants will rejoice. What makes this so interesting is that he, and ultimately, our great grandmother, Anna Jones Clark was the heir to an estate in Wales. But, my grandfather refused to allow her to go to Wales to claim it. Which sucks because he died in 1946 leaving her destitute with children still at home.

Hope to hear from some of you soon.