Hello, again. I'm still here. It was a mild winter, but a long one when you consider that I've been pretty much house/work bound since November. Caregiving keeps you in the house. But it's planting season, and I've got a greenhouse to fill. Trying to work out a walkie talkie communication system with Stella. Her brain doesn't 'get' it. And her arthritic fingers can't push the button in hard enough to make it work.
I'll figure something out.
That's my grandfather, in someone's wedding a long ago time. I've spent some time on Ancestry dot com this winter filling up the family tree. Up to 545 people as of today. I also took the DNA test. 73 percent Finnish and the rest mostly Eastern European. It's cool to see whose DNA matches up as 4th cousins or so and see where they live on a map. One of the many fun aspects of Ancestry.
I started researching the family after dad died in 1998. Back then is was snail mail. Writing to distant churches in faraway countries trying to get birth records. It was a tedious process, but even then I managed to go back to the 1600's for some lines. Now I am expanding that work..... into husbands of cousins, and 7th great grand aunts, and all these different family relationship labels that autopopulate as people "match up" in my tree and others.
