Hiatus Explained

I disappeared for a few months...well, a year...but my reasoning is this:



We had a little girl! Another branch on our family tree!

My time is taken up by her 2 month old needs, so genealogy is not high on my priority list. However, now that I'm not going to be working to stay home with this beautiful little girl, I'm hoping that I'll be able to start this project back up soon.

If you want, you can follow this blog to keep up with updates. If you are so inclined, you could always follow my new blog - A Thrify Geek, to feed my new addiction to couponing! I need to save many pennies for our daughter, and I'm hoping some of the savings will allow me to work on my genealogy. I sense that when continue with this full time, I'll have to do some traveling and other costly things like vital records. So exciting! I can't wait to get back to work!

GOLDMINE!!!

If you don't see me again, its because I'm going through all this:



Picked up the 4 boxes from my Aunt today, and holy CRAP! There's so much IN IT! It's all my Grandma Geve's stuff, and there's an abundance of everything! There's certificates, wills, enumeration papers, her notes, articles, and SO MUCH MORE!

I first need to find a way to sort everything. Then I need to go through all the papers, and because of my Grandmother's love affair with the copier, there are more copies of pages than I know what to do with! :D

Right now, I'm practically bouncing up and down! BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER! {besides the Backstreet Boys tickets my hubby got me!}.

I don't even know which box to start with!

Surnames

I figured I'd make a list of the surnames and general locations where I'm looking for them. I'll put in the years once I get all that information. That way, if anyone stumbles across the blog in search of the same people, they'd know what I'm working on. :)

New York
Dopp
Ferguson
Lester
Vrooman
Fitsimons
Burke {Bourke}
Van Alstyne

Alabama
O'Rourke
Craddock
McKeever
Tillman

Pennsylvania
McKeever

Georgia
White
Smith
Cobb

Virginia
White
Smith
Marsh
Davis
Potts

South Carolina
White
Golightly
Seaborn
Osburne
Whitehead

Ireland
Bourke {Burke}
Lester
O'Rourke
Corbett
Moore
Dunseath

Scotland
Smith
Ritichie
Barclay
Crawford

Germany
Dopp {Dopff}

This list is by no means complete, but I hope to add more later.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my Great-Aunt Kathryn's birthday, and she's 90 years young!

Happy Birthday Kathryn!