My head and heart are filled with the joy of the birth of my new grandson, and so is my time right now.  That means that there will be a hiatus of sorts in my research and less time to write up whatever research I do, at least for a short period.  I do, however, have a few items to post based on research I had completed before he was born.  They require a little more work, but I hope to post them within a a very short time.

In the meantime, I will be celebrating this new life and the knowledge that our family history continues with this new leaf on the tree.  It was primarily for my children and my grandchildren that I started down this path originally, though it has grown to be something more than I ever anticipated, linking me to new cousins, teaching me so much about my ancestors, history, and myself.  But in the end it does all come down to future generations.  Now I just have one more reason to keep doing this research and to keep writing this blog.