Genealogy and Other Thoughts

January Goals & Accomplishments!

2012-01-26T05:52:00.000-08:00

I started the year out on the right foot and have pushed through the month of January trying to accomplish everything I set out to do!

I added to my goals the participation in the blogging meme, 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy. I might not post every week, but it's a project that can benefit genealogists of all skill levels.

Here is how January 2012, ended for me.

January 2012 Goals

One Small Goal: Finish that photo album I started in December. Done, January 1st!
Close out the books for 2011, and get everything ready for the CPA. Done.

One Bigger Goal: Write 2 chapters for a study group lesson plan. This goal was changed out to creating the research plan, and film/book lists to view at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Done.
Close the books for 2011 - review Quicken reports and get them ready for CPA, tax prep.As noted above, it was a real pain because of the bank changing ownership, but it's done!

One Long Term Goal: Review and begin tweaking the source citations to my KDP (Kinship Determination Project). I fly to Salt Lake City on Monday January 30th, and come home at the end of the week. I am hopeful that between the meetings and the classes I'll be able to pull a lot of this together.

It all started here in December 2011, with Stephanie at Corn And Cotton: My Family's Story; Terri at Finding Our Ancestors; and Denise at Denise's Genealogy Journey.

Press Release: Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG)

2012-01-21T17:00:00.000-08:00

The Council forthe Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) announces the first ForensicGenealogy Institute. It will be held October 25 through October 27, 2012, in Dallas,Texas, at the Wyndham Dallas Love Field hotel.

This is anadvanced course for professional genealogists, designed by working forensicgenealogists. The intensive twenty-hourcourse is scheduled from 9:00 am on Thursday through 1:00 pm on Saturday. Thisschedule accommodates late arrival Wednesday. Departure can be scheduled earlyenough Saturday to be home with family Sunday and back to business onMonday. The class size will be limitedto 25 enrollees to enhance the learning opportunity.

The ForensicGenealogy Institute offers twenty hours of significant hands-on instructionwith real-world work examples, resources, sample forms, and work materials. Theembedded practicum offers actual forensic case studies that will be coveredfrom start to finish. Those whosatisfactorily complete the course will receive a Forensic Genealogy InstituteCertificate of Completion.

The instituteincludes the following comprehensive modules: Overview of Forensic Genealogy, Forensic Research Skills, Legal and EthicalConsiderations, Probate/Real Estate Missing and Unknown Heirs, Missing Persons,and Business Aspects.

With overforty-five years of combined forensic genealogical experience, the coreinstructors are all full-time forensic genealogists who earn their living inthe specialty: Michael Ramage, J.D., Certified Genealogist (sm), Kelvin L.Meyers, Leslie Brinkley Lawson, Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist, and teaching assistant Catherine W.Desmarais, M.Ed., Certified Genealogist. Special guest instructors may also be announced.

Registration is$400 for Non-CAFG Members and $350 for CAFG Members and Mentor Programenrollees. The registration fee includes lunch on Thursday and Friday. A $25 discount is offered for earlyregistration through 27 March 2012. Apartial scholarship will be reimbursed to one non-CAFG attendee and two partialscholarships will be reimbursed to participants who are enrolled in the CAFGMentor Program.

CAFG securedspecial room rates beginning at $109 plus tax. Hotel reservations are available beginning January 27. The Wyndham islocated near Love Field, which is served by Southwest, United, Delta,Continental, and Air Canada airlines. Among its many free amenities, the Wyndham offers shuttle service to andfrom Love Field, parking, and WIFI.

More informationabout the Forensic Genealogy Institute is available at

http://www.forensicgenealogists.com/forensic-genealogy-institute.html. From this page you may follow the 123.signup.comlink to the Forensic Genealogy Institute registration page.

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy - Week 3 Free Tools

2012-01-15T19:02:00.000-08:00

Week 3 – Free Online Genealogy Tools: Free online genealogytools are like gifts from above. Which one are you most thankful for? How hasit helped your family history experience?

Freeonline genealogy tools

I can'tsay just one is my favorite. I use all of these, each for different reasons.Each has a niche that the others don't have yet they all have real value. Ihope you can find something among these that can add value to your research.Each one has a small piece of my family puzzle.

FamilySearch.org: www.familysearch.org

FamilySearch is doing such an outstanding job of puttingmore and more documents online for us, free of charge. Check back frequently asthe documents are being put up at a pretty quick rate. If you'd like to see thesite be more useful, help to transcribe records. A record set a day or even aweek, helps. Please help if you can.

FindAGrave.com: www.findagrave.com

Every trip I take I come home and upload my photos to thissite. I love that I can link all of the family members regardless of where theywandered off to and died, they all are linked together! I have nothing but goodthings to say about the people I interacted with over the years.

RootsWeb.com: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

There are still a lot of people still adding information tothis site, and it is forever free. Don't pass it by.

Linkpendium.com (from creators of RootsWeb): http://www.linkpendium.com/

From the people who brought you RootsWeb, we now haveLinkpendium. They too are adding lots of information, and it is free. You canfriend Brian (Wolf) Leverich on facebook or on Google+. He's not hard to findand has a wonderful sense of humor!

USGenWeb: www.usgenweb.org

If you are going to research in a place you've neversearched before, start here. Visit the information about the state, and thenpick the county of research. You'll be pleasantly surprised what gems hidehere.

LibraryofCongress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

I told you about their newspapers last week. There's moregems in this site, but you have to figure out which ones are gems for yourfamily research.

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly bloggingprompts (one for each week of 2012) that invite genealogists and others todiscuss resources in the genealogy community including websites, applications,libraries, archives, genealogical societies and more.

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy - Week 2

2012-01-08T08:29:00.000-08:00

Week 2 – Paid Online Genealogy Tools: Which paid genealogy tool do you appreciate the most? What special features put it at the top of your list? How can it help others with their genealogy research?
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I offer this caveat first, there is no such thing as a perfect site or index. Each of these sites has valuable information that I can't easily access in any other way, that is why I pay for these subscriptions.

Ancestry.com: a blessing and a curse. A blessing when the search engine actually works that same way twice, a curse when the search engine won't locate something when I just looked at it!

GenealogyBank.com: My go-to newspaper site. Their collection is growing; there are thousands of newspapers yet to be scanned and OCRd (optical character resolution). But, it's still a very valuable resource for my work.

Southern California Genealogical Society: Being a member of this society (I live in Oregon by the way) allows me an affordable access to NewspaperArchive.com.

Non-paid: I just have to throw these in as they too are invaluable, and because I. LOVE. old. newspapers. I love new newspapers too! Newspapers are a tool I use in my work and I'm always looking for ways to access more of them.

Library of Congress (LOC) newspapers 1836-1922: See if your state of interest has had any scanning done yet.

And at the LOC site is the link for the U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690 to date, by state. Here you can see all newspaper titles for each state, town name. Can be most helpful when you want to check to see if a particular community had a newspaper.

Follow up Friday: January Goals, Week 1

2012-01-06T16:52:00.000-08:00

The new year is off to a strong start! I finished off that last item I had left from December 2011, the Brinkley photo album. Now all the photos have been scanned AND put in an archival safe photo album. That album took me more than 8 hours to finish up, but am I glad it's done. The other benefit is that since I've scanned all the photos they are easy to grab out of my Picasa photo album and post. So convenient!

I've also decided to participate in 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy, not as a goal but as a way to give back to the community. I don't know that I'll participate every week, but I feel that sharing the abundance only grows the community in a positive way. The Law of Attraction at work you know.

I'm now preparing the year end statements to close the financial books on 2011. My biggest issue to slow me down is that my credit union was bought last year and so all my downloads are not from one bank. I'll have to work to make sure all is in balance for the CPA!

As if that isn't enough to do, Rootstech is at the end of the month, and I'm going to be in Salt Lake City for a whole week! I still have prep work to do before I go. That entire week is going to be dedicated to working on my KDP (Kinship Determination Project).

So now I'm off to figure out how to work for a living and accomplish the above in 3 short weeks. Hoping your goals and plans are coming together for you.

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy - Week 1

2012-01-06T15:12:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of genealogy blogs written for genealogists. It is my intention to be a bit more active at this blog and to give readers an opportunity to find a gem now and again amongst the posts.

This series 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy was started by Amy Coffin. You can read the announcement here.

I have several hundred blogs I follow, but most don't write something every day, so I can usually keep up. I do most of my reading while on the recumbent bike or in the evening when I am too tired to think much more. I use Google Reader and admit I'd be lost without it! It allows me to keep articles unread when they are so good I need a second read with a fresh mind!

Now keep in mind there are a number of different types of blogs. I write this blog for a wider audience than my blog I write for my family. That blog is for me to be able to put the family stories down "on paper" and preserve those stories for my family. I also include photos over there. If someone wants one of those photos, take away! I want them shared far and wide. Keep in mind other people don't feel that way about photos, so you might want to ask if you don't find any information on the site.

One of the blogs I always stop to read is written by Marian Pierre-Louis. She writes Marian's Roots and Rambles. She writes at least one blog post daily, and I make sure to try to keep up so my reading doesn't fall to far behind! I hope you'll enjoy her blog as much as I do!

January 2012 Goals

2011-12-28T13:37:00.000-08:00

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

We all need goals to move our skills and accomplishments forward. There are a group of us working on our goals. Our hope is that by making our goals public we'll be more inclined to make those goals a reality. Join us in eating that elephant one bite at a time! I know that I alone hold the key to my success in 2012.

December 2011 goals were met. One item not yet finished, the photo album. Added to January goals.

My 2012 goals are to finish creating that lesson plan. It will consist of 8-10 lessons. (best guess right now)

I also want to finish my KDP. Working for a living and trying to add extras to the plate always get to be challenging.

January 2012 Goals

One Small Goal: Finish that photo album I started in December. Close out the books for 2011, and get everything ready for the CPA.

One Bigger Goal: Write 2 chapters for a study group lesson plan
Close the books for 2011 - review Quicken reports and get them ready for CPA, tax prep.

One Long Term Goal: Review and begin tweaking the source citations to my KDP (Kinship Determination Project).

It all started here in December 2011, with Stephanie at Corn And Cotton: My Family's Story; Terri at Finding Our Ancestors; and Denise at Denise's Genealogy Journey.

December's Goals Updated!

2011-12-28T13:29:00.000-08:00

This is my updated list of December goals. I realize I have just a bit of time yet to get that one last item finished, but I was relishing a visit from my daughter who I only see for one week a year. She was my priority this week.

If you would like to participate with us and map out your goals for each month, broken down into weekly steps, please send Stephanie a note.

I am taking up the inspiration I found online fromStephanie at Corn and Cotton: My Family's Story and Terri's Finding OurAncestors and Denise's Genealogy Journey all posted today. They are stating their goals for the month, and thenwe’ll inspire each other to accomplish the goals, and set new ones every month.This might actually be very motivating for me! Thank you all for theinspiration, I really appreciate it!

~~December will be a busy month already so my goal list willbe short.~~ December is toast!

My goals for December:

~~Write 3 blog posts. At least one for my Genealogy and Other Thoughts and 2 for My Wonderful Family~~ - Done
Get the pile of photos on the work table in date order and start (maybe finish) putting them in a photo album. - Almost, photos organized and in date order, grouped by family and ready to go into book.
~~Scan more of the photos on said work table~~- All of the photos are Done
~~Create a blogging schedule and an idea list for future blogs~~ - Done
~~Do indexing at least once per week for FamilySearch~~ - Done

Thank you for your inspiration, now I need to get to work!In the months ahead I’ll try to stay with Stephanie’s goal format (notedbelow), but no promises. Just making goals is a step in the right direction forme!

Previous Month in Review

One Small Goal

One Bigger Goal

One Long-term Goal

Wordless Wednesday: J. F. Walker, Appanoose County, Iowa

2011-12-14T08:55:00.000-08:00

J.F. Walker family [J.F. Walker is the older gentleman in front][embedded stamp in the lower left corner of the photo is the photographer name 'ECKERMAN'] Believe the photo taken in Iowa ca 1900. None of the rest of the members of this family are identified. I received it from family living in Appanoose County, Iowa. Is this your family?

Blog Caroling

2011-12-11T12:56:00.001-08:00

There are so many Christmas songs I enjoy, how could I pick just one? I went to YouTube to get an idea. I only need one... but Frank is there singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas . And Bing is there singing Do You Hear What I Hear? And then there is Dean signing about Silver Bells. And there were more, but I'd already spent an hour. Let's just say I love Christmas music and I can't pick just one!

Goals for December 2011

2011-12-05T19:13:00.001-08:00

I am taking up the inspiration I found online fromStephanie at Corn and Cotton: My Family's Story and Terri's Finding OurAncestors and Denise's Genealogy Journey all posted today. They are stating their goals for the month, and thenwe’ll inspire each other to accomplish the goals, and set new ones every month.This might actually be very motivating for me! Thank you all for theinspiration, I really appreciate it!

December will be a busy month already so my goal list willbe short.

My goals for December:

Write 3 blog posts. At least one for my Genealogy and Other Thoughts and 2 for My Wonderful Family
Get the pile of photos on the work table in date order and start (maybe finish) putting them in a photo album.
Scan more of the photos on said work table
Create a blogging schedule and an idea list for future blogs
Do indexing at least once per week for FamilySearch

Previous Month in Review

One Small Goal

One Bigger Goal

One Long-term Goal

Lectures I Enjoy

2011-12-04T16:21:00.001-08:00

Did you know I givegenealogy lectures?

I do public speaking. I don’t usually mention that in myposts, but I do enjoy having the opportunity to share what I know aboutgenealogy. I especially enjoy sharing my passion for forensic genealogy.

Lectures I enjoygiving

Getting From Then to Now: Locating People in the LastCentury
Newspaper Research: Find it in the Past, Preserve it for the Future
Jump Start Your Genealogy
Doing On-Site Research: Going There, Walking Their Ground...
Planning a Successful Reunion
Keeper of the Stones: Online Cemeteries
Communication in the 21st Century: Facebook, twitter & Google+

Go to this link: www.lawsonresearch.netand receive full descriptions of the lecture topics. If there is a lecturealong these lines that you would like me to create for you, please let me know.

Webinars

I’ve not yet led one, but I have taken classes (via webinar)on how to produce a webinar of my own. I’d be happy to investigate this furtherwith you if this is something you would be interested in doing.

Experience

I usually give about 20 talks a year; local, stateconferences and regional conferences.

Find out more about me here: http://www.lawsonresearch.net/

Reviews at Speakermix here: http://speakermix.com/leslie-brinkley-lawson

My Calendar

I am now scheduling lectures for the upcoming year and wouldenjoy the opportunity to lecture to your society. Please contact me through mywebsite: www.lawsonresearch.net

Children of Andrew Jackson Kinney & Margaret Daugan

2011-11-27T15:48:00.001-08:00

The long Thanksgiving weekend has been used to sort photos at my house. I am the owner of this photo, but they are a collateral line. I'd like to at least make the family aware that this photo exists, should they go looking.

Andrew Jackson Kinney, died Sep 25 1870 in Troy, Davis County, IA. He married Margaret Dugan, died 20 Feb 1932, buried at Arkansas City, Cowley County, KS.
Children (1) Perry Benjamin Kinney; (2) George Washington Kinney (3) Jacob Alexander Kinney (4) Abraham Lincoln Kinney (5) Andrew Jackson Kinney (6) Mary Alice Kinney (my line) (7) Hattie Kinney
(8) Anna Belle Kinney

If you can tell me if you know which Kinney is which, I'd be most grateful!

This is Mary Alice Kinney Brinkley with her daughters celebrating her 80th birthday, 1941, Iowa.

Franklin Pierce Quarels

2011-08-14T18:41:00.000-07:00

The Sacramento Bee [Sacramento, California], 27 June 1940, page/column not noted.

On the same page was the announcement for my own family. I feel all obituaries should be posted. I'll see if I can find out more about his daughter, Mrs. Ethel May Boyd, so that Franklin Pierce Quarels isn't forgotten.

U.S. Coast Guard, "E.N. School Class B-136, Groten, Conn."

2011-07-11T17:43:00.000-07:00

My father served in the U.S. Coast Guard during WWII and Korea. He was pretty good about labeling photos.Going through some of his things, I located this photo. I have included 3 photos here, and an index to them. First we have the original photo, then the photo with all the numbered hats and then the name list (from the back of the original photo) and then the index I created by numbering the hats. Disclaimer in list of names.
If you find a man you know, please let me know! I'd like to know if I have the name correct, and if it was correctly spelled. I'd be happy to share a copy of the photo upon request.

1. Ludovici

2. Bost

3. Mann

4. Kauth

5. Gwynn

6. Downing

7. Pinell

8. Leggett

9. Parsons

10. Osburn

11. Sundeleaf

12. Walling

13. Roth

14. Sexton

15. Thomas

16. Wignor

17. Seigal

18. Moratt

19. Hamilton

20. Curnick

21. Cohen

22. Johnson

23. Unknown

24. Unknown

25. Unknown

26. Unknown

27. Unknown

28. Levrile / Levrlle / Levriie

29. Davis

30. Flick

31. Garbutt

32. Olson

33. John

34. Balls

35. Burch

36. Fullar, Leo

37. Seifkes

38. Hanson

39. Lao

40. Earll

41. Cook

42. Carmichel / Carmichael

43. Mixson

44. Budanauro

45. Leon W. Brinkley

46. McAleer

April 28, 1952

U.S. Coast Guard

E.N. School Class B-136

Groten, Connecticut

Class ran: January 7, 1952 to April 28, 1952

The only person I can positively identify in this photo is #45, Leon W. Brinkley. The names listed here are what he has written on the back of the photo. You will note he missed giving names to numbers 23 to 27.

*Noted error* I don’t know if the names on the back of the photo run left to right (as they should) or from right to left. I state this because on the back of the photo he starts the naming from the right in the row he is in (the front row). So, each row has the men that were named in them, but I am just unsure as to which direction the names were listed.

This is the face of genealogy

2011-06-05T10:40:00.000-07:00

John Inman (1836-1919) and granddaughter, Ethel Crispin (1910-1955). Photo taken about May 1914, in Point Arena, Mendocino County, California.

Approaching the Lectern - ebook review

2010-09-24T14:03:00.000-07:00

Thomas MacEntee, owner of The Connected Genealogist, recently wrote an ebook, “Approaching the Lectern: How to Become a Genealogy Speaker.” You can buy this book at his Lulu Storefront. < http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/approaching-the-lectern-how-to-become-a-genealogy-speaker/12187793>

I am a professional genealogist, but I want to up-level my business. It’s time for me to appear more polished on the Internet. Labor-day weekend I spent three days with Thomas’ book and worked on nothing but my business. I felt very accomplished by the time I was done! With guidance from Thomas’ book I now have a very clean Bio. One Bio is short in length, one longer, and one that is comprehensive.

Then I moved on to polish that Genealogy Resume. There are times we need to have this document available and now I feel very good about what I’ll be presenting. I’ve also added a reminder on my calendar to make sure this document stays current on a monthly basis.

Then it was time to review each of my presentations. Yes, those were stale (IMHO), but they are all cleaned up now. I created a template to use for future presentations as well. Thomas also covers the font size, color, graphics and more in his book. All ideas are very clearly written, and full of helpful ideas and suggestions.

For those who are new to speaking and those who want to appear more polished, Thomas covers all the basics! We all need to know our presentations blind, and be prepared for any and all things that might happen. Computer crashes happen, where is your backup? Who has a backup laptop you can borrow to use the backup on your thumb drive? And we have to be brave enough to ask for evaluations if we hope to get better!

Thomas also covers Virtual Presentation in chapter six. This is an item I hope to get much more comfortable with. I need more knowledge about this, so I’ll work on that a bit more over the course of the next few years.

Chapter seven covers Building Your Business and setting your rate. I concur with Thomas’ evaluation in this chapter. I just spent time with another genealogy tomb, Professional Genealogy, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. I went through the steps necessary to make sure I was charging the ‘right’ fees for my business. So Labor-day weekend didn’t need to have this step done again! Thank goodness! But, you do need to do this step. As you know, it is very relevant to you running a successful business.

Chapter eight: Marketing Your Business was of interest to me. We all need to be better at marketing our businesses. I hadn’t really worked on my blog, but I am now. I’ve been learning how to add pages. One of those new pages now has a very good bio about me, and another page has my lectures! I’ve more work to do, but this was a very good start! As suggested in Thomas’ book, LinkedIn is also a place to do marketing with professional colleagues. I’ve been more active on my page there, and joined more groups. I’ve asked for a review of my website from my colleagues. I got some very GOOD feedback! Feedback that makes my webpage look even more polished! Mission accomplished!

I felt the price I paid for this book was well worth what I got out of it! I spent three full days working on just my business. There wasn’t a client file in sight. And when that weekend was done I had accomplished quite a lot of work for the benefit of my business. Just the reason Thomas MacEntee wrote the book, to help others be successful. I would encourage you to read this book and then get to work on YOUR business.

Educational Opportunity at the National Archives

2010-09-22T21:13:00.000-07:00

Press release from the National Archives at: http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2010/nr10-147.html
They have created a new site for teachers to help their students with history at:
http://docsteach.org/documents
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
“DocsTeach.org is a significant and welcome addition to our popular education programs,” said Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero. “It will engage teachers and students in new ways and stir their interest in history through the use of original documents in the National Archives. It is also consistent with our goals to make as much of our holdings available to the public as easily as possible.”

DocsTeach combines primary source content with the latest interactive capabilities of the Internet in ways that teachers who have pilot-tested the site are calling “brilliant!”

Not only does the site invite educators to explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the holding of the National Archives—items such as George Washington’s draft of the Constitution, the cancelled check for Alaska, Chuck Yeager’s notes on the first supersonic flight, and President Richard Nixon’s resignation letter—but it also allows teachers to combine these materials using clever tools to create engaging activities that students can access online.

The seven tools featured on the site are designed to teach specific historical thinking skills—weighing evidence, interpreting data, focusing on details, and more. Each employs interactive components including puzzles, scales, maps, flow charts, and others that both teachers and students can tailor to their needs."

Looks like more wonderful learning opportunities are available to us from home!

Cookus family, Nebraska

2010-09-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

June of 2010, we found ourselves in Nebraska. We started in Omaha and we went west. There were many stops along the way as I worked to document my Cookus family. All Cookus family members who live in Nebraska descend from Joseph S. Cookus [1833-1911] and his wife, Minerva Ellen Doty Cookus [1837-1911]. They brought 9 children into the world. My goal was to find as much as I could about each of the descendants of these 9 people. All headstone photos have been posted to Find-A-Grave. Type in Cookus, and enter Nebraska for the state. The family lines have also been linked. As I learn more about each of these people, I can update their specific page at Find-A-Grave. If you know more about these people, I hope you'll send me a message! And you too can post updates as well.

Clinton Presidential Library

2009-09-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

I made a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas on August 31, 2009. There was a conference put on my the Federation of Genealogical Societies that week. I also had client work to do there! So both the client and I got some much needed information. While there, I also played tourist. One of the spots I visited was the Clinton Presidential Library. Having never visited a Presidential Library before, I wasn't sure what to expect. It was a wonderful experience. I'd encourage anyone who likes history to go visit a Presidential Library!

2009 Clinton Presidential Library

Research Reports for myself

2009-08-24T20:08:00.000-07:00

Format I'm trying to follow is like that in the BCG Standards manual, pages 49 & 50.
Memo To: Estate file
By: My full contact info
Date: of course
Focus: Lineage of... or parentage of...
Summary of Known Information (as of date...): [Attached footnotes for citations]

To-Do Plan updated ..date:
1. Sources: Find out.... probate or land record.. or...
2. Census Research:
3. Wills
4. Etc what ever you want to keep listing out

Summary of Findings (full date)

Itemized Findings

What are you reading these days?

2007-05-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

What are you reading these days? I'm busy reading, "Meet and Grow Rich," by Joe Vitale. No, it's not only about becoming financially rich! There is wealth in friends, family and my favorite subject, genealogy!

I've recently read books on doing Irish research. I have some Finley's that I'd really like to track down!

Remember, Families are Forever!

Leslie