Comments on: Climbing Family Trees http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/08/29/climbing-family-trees/ Ruminations on life, art, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:09:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chris http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/08/29/climbing-family-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 chris Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:34:51 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1395#comment-1566 I like the family histories that include things other than birth, death and marriage dates. Things like careers, avocations, illegitimate children, travels, really spice up a genealogy. Maybe yours can include some of the information you gathered from the reunion. ;) I like the family histories that include things other than birth, death and marriage dates. Things like careers, avocations, illegitimate children, travels, really spice up a genealogy. Maybe yours can include some of the information you gathered from the reunion. ;)

]]> By: Beth http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/08/29/climbing-family-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Beth Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:29:16 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1395#comment-1564 So glad to see you back in the blogosphere, Jeff. It's wonderful that you've been able to find so much information about your family, even if the relation to Sam Houston and Chief Brant didn't work out. I seem to recall a similar legend in our family---that we were descendants of some famous Irish person. But I don't think anyone ever proved it. Quite likely our relatives were simply poor Irish potato farmers. :-) So glad to see you back in the blogosphere, Jeff. It’s wonderful that you’ve been able to find so much information about your family, even if the relation to Sam Houston and Chief Brant didn’t work out. I seem to recall a similar legend in our family—that we were descendants of some famous Irish person. But I don’t think anyone ever proved it. Quite likely our relatives were simply poor Irish potato farmers. :-)

]]> By: Debi Kelly Van Cleave http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/08/29/climbing-family-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Debi Kelly Van Cleave Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:13:21 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1395#comment-1563 Oh, how interesting. My cousins also did a family tree recently and traced back our relatives to Scotland. Then they went out there and visited. They saw our family name carved into cornerstones. I don't use air conditioning either. I have it but never turn it on. First, I think it costs too much money. Second, I wait all year to be able to open the windows and feel the breeze, hear the birds and crickets, especially at night. I love those summer night noises. I can't stand the sound of the air conditioner running and the pool filter running... We put it on once this year. www.GreenerPastures--ACityGirlGoesCountry.blogspot.com Oh, how interesting. My cousins also did a family tree recently and traced back our relatives to Scotland. Then they went out there and visited. They saw our family name carved into cornerstones.

I don’t use air conditioning either. I have it but never turn it on. First, I think it costs too much money. Second, I wait all year to be able to open the windows and feel the breeze, hear the birds and crickets, especially at night. I love those summer night noises. I can’t stand the sound of the air conditioner running and the pool filter running… We put it on once this year.

http://www.GreenerPastures–ACityGirlGoesCountry.blogspot.com

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