I grew up in Griggsville, Pike county, IL. I have also lived in western New York state before coming back home to Pike County. Then after 18 years moving to Ohio. I have been researching my family history at least 35 years. Most of it was done bc before computer. Names in my family tree, Smith, Carrel, McKinney, Stauffer, Noe, Reese, Cox, Shinn, Evans, Shaner, Kinzig. I like to read, research, sew, make jewelry and garden, weather permitting. We travel when we can. We like Fort Myers Beach Florida and Sanibel Island. The mountains of north Georgia, Michigan, New England and western New York state. Update, I now live in Cadiz, Ohio. Since 2016. Not that far from where some ancestors lived before the Civil War.

I grew up in Griggsville, Pike county, IL. I have also lived in western New York state before coming back home to Pike County. Then after 18 years moving to Ohio. I have been researching my family history at least 35 years. Most of it was done bc before computer. Names in my family tree, Smith, Carrel, McKinney, Stauffer, Noe, Reese, Cox, Shinn, Evans, Shaner, Kinzig. I like to read, research, sew, make jewelry and garden, weather permitting. We travel when we can. We like Fort Myers Beach Florida and Sanibel Island. The mountains of north Georgia, Michigan, New England and western New York state. Update, I now live in Cadiz, Ohio. Since 2016. Not that far from where some ancestors lived before the Civil War.