It's Been One Year!

It has been one year now that I have been blogging.

I've gotten more used to the way things can work, linking websites, posts, pictures, even music files- well sort of.

The best part has been the research and bringing things forgotten back to light. Not as many as I'd hoped have found us, but it has been great to be able to refer folks back here. Even if no one reads this, I'm having fun and I enjoy coming back to the photos and information from wherever I may be. It's like carrying a huge family album around with you. I love the virtual cemetery tours and knowing that anyone could pick up and go there (wherever 'there' is) and find family fairly easily. I love it when someone comments on something and I can go back and add to a post, or when I find something new and get to do the whole "STOP THE PRESS!" thing... I love that I can pre date something or post date or just save a draft until I can further verify or finish a thought...

You may have noticed that family members are all over the place, even if I just discovered yesterday about someone, their post may be found in last year's crop... Well, whenever possible I try to put a person's main profile "on" their birthday. It keeps things more evenly spaced and it's neat to go through the archives and see who all the November babies were, the Spring babies, etc. Could you imagine the birthday calendar we could have? Yikes!

Anyway...

Since I started this there have been leaps and bounds in our family tree. Call it a coincidence if you will. Call it "casting bread upon the water" and here come the sea gulls...

Progress has been slow on the Fragassi and Avila sides, unfortunately. Multiple immigrations and availability of Mexican records besides holes in family accounts have been to blame for that.

Winkler, Ambrose, Sharp, Stewart, Sprogis... significant additions. Before 2006 I didn't even know for sure that Phillip Winkler had any siblings, let alone exact relationships with the people he is buried with. I didn't know Frank Ambrose had any siblings, nor his parents' names- now we have more leads than we know what to do with. We have found numerous generations backwards and sideways of Sharp ancestors where before we were stopped at Burlington R. Sharp and wife Nora. My favorite Stewart finding was the records at Folsom State Prison...

I could go on and on. And someday I will!