Today

Today the Williams family line got updated with a few things I found last week at the family history center... Just waiting for some more film to come in!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

No, we haven't fallen off of the face of the earth... just got busy with other stuff. Promise to get back to blogging once we get into January.

My oldest daughter is in town visiting from college and it's good to have her home. I only have one more week with her, though.

Happy Veterans Day!

I thought for the next few days I'd start of list of ancestors (on both my side and Gene's side) who have served in the military (that I'm aware of).

Well... I got started on this list... and now it's taken all day and I've not got so many people's names as I do stories..

So the list will come! Happy Friday!

Histories added

Histories were added to the Peck blog today: Annie Alazana Peck Gold, Everett Van Orden Peck, Flora Ann Cable Mayer, Charlotte Amelia Peck Marsh, Martin Horton Peck and George Mayer.

Happy November!

Not sure where Edwin went.

Edwin Williams (younger brother of my great great grandfather, George Williams) is the topic of discussion today on the Williams blog. Hoping to get some other family group sheets up and linked today as well.

It's Friday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Now... there's a blog for the Peck family!

Today I got the Peck family blog up and running... with a link to a book published in 1868  (as I remember). Really interesting stuff. Here comes another plug for http://www.archive.org/... Many of these older books are now part of the public domain and have been scanned and uploaded for everyone to use (sometimes there are multiple copies uploaded). You can read the books in all kinds of formats - including saving the book as a pdf for your own computer.

Visit http://www.archive.org/ and then search for a city or a person (perferably from a long time ago)... and who knows what you might find! For the one I linked to on the Peck blog all I did was search for Joseph Peck, my ancestor that came from England in 1638.

More folks coming to America...

Today I've updated the Watson page (see the side link) as I found the ship manifest for when Kate Watson and her four children (Annie, Eva, Charles and Alfred) arrived in New York on the Ship Vaderland in November 1880. Just imagine being 7 months pregnant with 4 kids in tow -- traveling steerage. Still haven't found Shadrach Charles on a ship manifest yet... but he didn't get there too much before she did.