My father picked up "genealogy fever" some years before his death and when he passed, the fever passed to me. It has become a favorite hobby, not surprising as I love research. I am intrigued by the census records, the wills, the gravestones - intrigued to imagine the lives of all of these persons whose blood runs in my veins. What were their joys and sorrows? What were the mundanities of their days?

My father picked up "genealogy fever" some years before his death and when he passed, the fever passed to me. It has become a favorite hobby, not surprising as I love research. I am intrigued by the census records, the wills, the gravestones - intrigued to imagine the lives of all of these persons whose blood runs in my veins. What were their joys and sorrows? What were the mundanities of their days?