Busy Busy

Alot of changes sine my last post. I have been busy in my research on my family tree and in the course, helping others as well. I think I started last Aug with maybe 100 or so names going as far back as England in early to middle 1800's. To date I have almost 7,000 names in my datatbase with lost of stories and photos. I have at least 4,000 or more to transcribe into my records. On two main lines from my mother's side I am stuck at late 1700's. Another line from my mothers side I can go back to the first two generation in the Massachusetts colonies and beyond. The same can be said for my father side. A great uncle of my fathers headed west from Prescott Ontario to settle Alberta.

I have made many connections and found distant cousins from Canada, all over the US, England, Australia and New Zealand.

Doing this much research you often dig up many interesting family members and stories to boot. Essentially, if you can trace your family history back 400 years in New England you should be related to someone famous. I have found my family related to several US Presidents, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a handful of civil war generals, a NH gouvernor, and several wall street financiers.

That can pretty much take up alot of my free time, aside from the household duties, etc etc.

Physical Thereapy went very well and I was done a couple of weeks ago. I still go in a few times each week to use their equipment for a nominal fee which is very nice. All they need now is a sauna. I ended up with a rangle of motion of 2 degrees to 120 degrees. Walking in the yard or walking parallel to the slope of the ground doesn't do my knee any good so I try to keep to the sidewalks.

We did have a new addition to our family on February 15.



Her name is Sammi. She was born just before Christmas. She is a toy poodle. She's a little bigger now but not much so. I think at full grown she will get to be about 7-8 lbs. The above photo was taken before she went to the "day spa". The after photo is below.



She has been a very much appreiated member of our family. She was housebroken in lesss than two weeks and it did't take her too long to sleep through the night.

Zack is busy with school as usual. He lost all but one day of his Easter vacation so he will have school until they are done for the year in May. She has been busy as well. She is a quilter and always seems to be working on one project or another. She does beautiful work. We may have an opportunity soon to relocate to Nrth Carolina which will be very nice.....closure to her siblings and out of the snow. It's a longshot but we'll see where it goes.