I started researching my own genealogy back in the days of typewriters and before children. I stopped all research when the children lived at home and I worked full time. When the kids left, I got the genealogy binders out and entered the digital age of genealogy -- what a time saving method to do research.

My lines are Jones, Goff, Tyler, Burns, Nicholas, Gardner, Steinhoff, Kochert and Unkel.

Then I got fascinated with some of the genealogies I inherited on my husband's lines so I work on those too. They include Spicer, Smith, Rice, Hoskin and Tandy.

The contrast is interesting. I have German immigrants and old New England families. My husband has families going back to Virginia and Kentucky so the Civil War is very interesting on his side.

I grew up attending a country church, Evangelical and Reformed, in Woodbury County, Iowa (northwest Iowa close to Nebraska). The cemetery next to the church had 4 entries and since I'm related to most of the people buried there, I entered the burials for that cemetery. I live in Ames, Iowa.

I started researching my own genealogy back in the days of typewriters and before children. I stopped all research when the children lived at home and I worked full time. When the kids left, I got the genealogy binders out and entered the digital age of genealogy -- what a time saving method to do research.

My lines are Jones, Goff, Tyler, Burns, Nicholas, Gardner, Steinhoff, Kochert and Unkel.

Then I got fascinated with some of the genealogies I inherited on my husband's lines so I work on those too. They include Spicer, Smith, Rice, Hoskin and Tandy.

The contrast is interesting. I have German immigrants and old New England families. My husband has families going back to Virginia and Kentucky so the Civil War is very interesting on his side.

I grew up attending a country church, Evangelical and Reformed, in Woodbury County, Iowa (northwest Iowa close to Nebraska). The cemetery next to the church had 4 entries and since I'm related to most of the people buried there, I entered the burials for that cemetery. I live in Ames, Iowa.