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To: PMS Witch who wrote (727)	3/4/2001 12:36:11 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

It really is interesting to see what each person did or didn't do with their life. We each have a choice, many times a day, to go one way or the other. Many times, you will hear me talk about a 5 generation chart...we all have one...many of us don't know it. Starts with us, then our parents (fill in birth, marriage, death dates AND places (that places part is VERY important!), then our grandparents, our great grands, and our 2 great grands. We each have 16 great great grandparents. Each of them had lives that are interesting, IF we are interested enough to know about them. There are clues EVERYPLACE. Letters (that some of those newly found cousins might have, old pictures, with names, some dates, and once in awhile, an old studio name and place (those can be big clues, if we but watch for them....) family Bibles, obits, etc etc. Once those things are organized onto Family Group Sheets and Pedigree sheets (sounds frightful, I know, but I consider them roadmaps)...then on to the census records, National Archives, etc etc. I have Irish ancestors too in that chart I mentioned. Some were probably sent by Cromwell from England centuries before, and some of them were probably actually native to the land. Don't know lots about them as yet. Have wanted to get as much current info as possible for those who came to America, before I start on the trails to Europe. And re: your picture from Ireland....couple of things...Make sure you don't write directly on the backs of the pictures in ink...It will eventually bleed through and ruin the picture. I use filing labels to write on...easy enough to write on them, then "plop" them on the back of the picture. The other thing.....wouldn't it really be funny to find someday that the place you took your picture was really the area his grandparents trod while they were in Ireland??? Stranger things have happened.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (727)	3/4/2001 12:42:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

One of the neatest things I've found so far in my genealogy research - which is very sporadic - is an online copy of a book done by a woman who must have energy to burn - she probably could have been the CEO of a major corporation with all that energy. She traced one family backwards and forwards through 12 or more generations - info on literally thousands of people, all related (Hepler is the last name). I was working on one great-grandmother and stumbled onto this book on-line. Found out that there is a Hepler family reunion every year in August in Pitman, Pennsylvania, so we went last year. Turns out Pitman is a tiny place in the middle of Pennsylvania Dutch country, and many of the people there were speaking German. My branch of the family went west to Indiana and then to Minnesota and North Dakota and Utah and spread out, but these people stayed put for generations. One of the things they do every year is lay wreaths on the graves of the Heplers that fought in the Revolutionary War. The woman who did the Hepler family tree did a lot of other family trees, for the interrelated families that stayed put. Maybe this was the only way she could get out of the house.:)