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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1663)	12/9/2005 10:50:38 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

Those are all good suggestions -- I've done them all except write to the individual parish churches. Computers and insomnia are both wonderful impetus to genealogy. A while back I read that the biggest uses for personal computers were genealogy, investments and porn. No idea whether that's still true, my sense is that now that everybody has broadband maybe gaming is right up there with porn, and now that the go-go years are gone, investments aren't so big, but don't really know. With geneaology, once you hit a brick wall, though, the tendency is to pick up another strand to work for a while. The strand I am working now is the Peytons, hoping to get it all done in time for the big party 400th Anniversary Party in Jamestown in 2007, so we can join the Jamestown Society and party, too. They're pretty hard to crack. The Peyton Society book says my little side of the family is distantly related to George Washington's uncles and aunts. And you already know about the Cajuns, and then there's the Croatians, from Istria, a place I'd really love to visit. But geneaology is a selfish pleasure. It's all about "me me me" and the free time is better spent on, say, learning about biodiesel, or sending Christmas cards, or writing a pro bono brief for the Federalist Society, etc., etc., etc. (Actually it's not just "me me me", I think future generations may be interested to know their heritage, and the kids really would like to go to the Jamestown party if I can pull that off. But that's a long shot, the county records appear to have been in one of the courthouses that the Yankees burned during the Civil War.)