Twigs & Trees

Been a really busy week here at our house.  I've not only been working on doing the data entry from the trip we took the last two weeks of May, but I'm working on prep for the trip the first week of July.  Going to different places so I can't even use my old lists!  Always new stuff to chase eh?

Besides the genealogy data entry, we welcomed a new twig to our tree -

Pictured above with his mom, Danielle is Caleb Layton born Tuesday in Alaska to Danielle & Andrew Layton.  Andrew's mom is my cousin Christie. Caleb weighed in at 7lbs 14 oz.  What a cutie!

On another family note thanks to my Military Monday post I've remade contact with cousins I've not seen in 40+ years.  We've been chatting on line and plan on meeting for dinner the first week of July in Dayton.  I can't tell you how excited I am about this!  I've got photo's that I'm hoping maybe they can help identify.  I'm also wondering how much everyone has changed! After all, last time I saw him he was a teenage brat... LOL.  But it will be great fun getting re-acquainted.  I am SOOOOOO looking forward to this!

Finally a step-cousin welcomed her sixth great grandbaby on Monday- Addison Renee.  Congrats Mickie on the new grandbaby! She's beautiful.

Maybe next week things will slow down a bit and I'll be able to stay focused.  After all who can stay focused on researching when you have these adorable babies to look at?!!?!?

Happy Researching!

Karen

Introduction

Wow! I can't believe it! ME! Joining the bloggers of the world... Welcome to my blog! My blog is all about genealogy - my passion.

My blog will be about things I've discovered, challenges in my research, trips we take just for genealogy, my prep for the trips, just plain ole genealogy!

I'm not a rocket scientist but I am passionate about what I do and I love to do genealogy! So stop by anytime, grab a tall glass of sweet tea and sit a spell. We can chat about genealogy - I may even sneak a couple of lines in about my three grandsons or my husband Mark! My research mainly focuses on research in the following states: GA, KY, NC, SC, VA, TN, IN, NJ, MD, WV & OH.

I'm working right now on some research trip to do lists... I'm going to be researching in Ft Wayne at their awesome library on May 12th, then Mark & I will be off an a neat genealogy adventure on May 22-23 to Elkhart County, Indiana where some of the Boomershine family migrated to after leaving Montgomery County, Ohio. Neat thing about going to Elkhart is I recently discovered that they have an obituary index online. WOWSERS! http://www.elkhart.lib.in.us/cgi-bin/index5.pl?&file=genealogy.html Going to make this trip a big success already. After leaving Elkhart we'll be headed down to see my sister for a bit then to Nashville to the Archives & library to research there for four days.

The main surnames I'll be researching on this trip will be Boomershine, Hurst, Ligon & Phillips. I'll be blogging a bit along the way so stay tuned. So for now I'm off to work some more on the to do list.

Karen