PURPOSE OF THIS PAGE
I have struggled with the best way to organize my research so that it is close at hand and also so that I may share it with others. What I hope to do with this page is to have an entry for each individual ancestor with all their pertinent information and source documentation as well as expand on the different surnames and localities.

MY BACKGROUND
I love researching my family genealogy. My mother originally began the research on her side of the family for a college class she was taking in 1998-99 but she limited her research to her mother’s side of the family.

Over the summer of 2007, I saw an ad for ancestry.com and remembered how much fun I had helping my mother when I was fifteen and I thought it might kill some time over the holiday weekend digging through her folders and refreshing my memory.

Within a week or two, I was completely hooked and spending most of my time researching. Within a few months, I had not only gone through all of my mother’s materials, but I had started to bug the crap out of my father’s mother for my dad’s side of the family.

I lost my job in the fall of 2007 and was unable to immediately find a new one. I hate being inactive, I hate sitting at home and watching television so I really threw myself into the research. I learned a great deal about traveling by myself (I’m used to dragging my mother along) and finding new trails without being pointed in the direction. It was a great independence builder and a good way to keep my sanity.

The more I find out about my family, the more I want to know. I don’t have the financial freedom to dig in the way I’d like but over the next year, I hope to flesh out my research more.

WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME
You can find me over at my main site, dearisobel.org for my personal site and my my collective.