I have become the repository of my family's geneaology information and am enjoying (when I have a moment) pulling it all together. What is fascinating is how many different names there are in my line (I mostly knew just the most recent ones). Much of my family is Southern, with a lot of Scotch-Irish ancestry and some recent U.K. relatives, but through genealogy I learned that I do have at least one relative who came to MA in 1630 and therefore descendants in New England and South. I live near Newton/ Brookline MA and have started informally to take an occasional walk in local cemeteries to see if I can fulfill picture requests.

I have become the repository of my family's geneaology information and am enjoying (when I have a moment) pulling it all together. What is fascinating is how many different names there are in my line (I mostly knew just the most recent ones). Much of my family is Southern, with a lot of Scotch-Irish ancestry and some recent U.K. relatives, but through genealogy I learned that I do have at least one relative who came to MA in 1630 and therefore descendants in New England and South. I live near Newton/ Brookline MA and have started informally to take an occasional walk in local cemeteries to see if I can fulfill picture requests.