I started down the genealogy road back in the early 1990s.  I had been  interested when I was a teenager, and asked many questions of my grandmother and  great aunt  -  and wrote down a lot of information, which I kept in a file cabinet at  home.  However, with the advent of college and summer jobs, I didn't have the time to  do anything with it.  Then I was called to active duty in the Air Force.  Some years  later, after retirement from the Air Force, my dad died, then my mother; with that  event it was necessary to take care of my mother's estate, which essentially  consisted of her house.  When we arrived, one of the first things I wanted to find  was the old file cabinet, and the genealogical information I had collected years  before.  Alas  -  through the years, and a series of room renters, the filing cabinet  was  -  gone.  We found a cardboard box with some of the files in it, but not the one  I was looking for.  So I consigned that project to faded memories, and let it go.       Then, I visited my cousin Donald, and his wife Betty mentioned that they had  received a copy of genealogical information from a distant cousin.  They sent me a  copy, and I started anew.  This web site is the result of ten years' research and  work followed on from the information in that distant cousin's work.         If anyone sees errors in the information, or has additional information about  this family tree, please contact me.