I'm the maiden aunt parents keep the kids away from at family reunions - a not-quite-amateur genealogist who is five years into tending the family kudzu vine. In the process, I've amassed a great deal of random historical information and developed an odd fascination with graveyards. My impossible dream is a family branch with more than five male and five female names in the pool.

I am researching my paternal Mann-Anderson-Hudson-Leacock Irish/Scottish lines and my maternal Chambers-Howard-Hadley-McCorkle English/Irish/Scottish lines. There is a reason one art teacher said my face is so Anglo-Saxon, it should be illegal. I also have Edmundsons and Mendenhalls and Grays and Hollingsworths (and so forth) in my lines. Surprise.

And yes, I am directly descended from The Irish Hammer, old William Edmundson himself, but not on the side I would have expected... of course.

I have been known to wander graveyards taking pictures. They end up here when I do. If they are your ancestors, I'm happy to pass them along if you want. Unless they're also my ancestors, and then we can negotiate.

I'm the maiden aunt parents keep the kids away from at family reunions - a not-quite-amateur genealogist who is five years into tending the family kudzu vine. In the process, I've amassed a great deal of random historical information and developed an odd fascination with graveyards. My impossible dream is a family branch with more than five male and five female names in the pool.

I am researching my paternal Mann-Anderson-Hudson-Leacock Irish/Scottish lines and my maternal Chambers-Howard-Hadley-McCorkle English/Irish/Scottish lines. There is a reason one art teacher said my face is so Anglo-Saxon, it should be illegal. I also have Edmundsons and Mendenhalls and Grays and Hollingsworths (and so forth) in my lines. Surprise.

And yes, I am directly descended from The Irish Hammer, old William Edmundson himself, but not on the side I would have expected... of course.

I have been known to wander graveyards taking pictures. They end up here when I do. If they are your ancestors, I'm happy to pass them along if you want. Unless they're also my ancestors, and then we can negotiate.