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She's taking all 14 on a cruise???

What.....?

That was about someone else....?

Well that's different then.

Nevermind......

03/17/09 06:36 PM

#1918

Don, you are too funny. But that is just how some rumors get started isn't it? Someone hears something, only not the whole thing and suddenly everything is out of proportion and sometimes out of control.

03/17/09 06:48 PM

#1919

Lorene BuSteed (Householder)

OK, just so I get this right. Pat is taking 14 of us an a Mexican Riviera cruise, so let me be the first one to sign up.

1. Lynne Scales-Thurman

03/17/09 07:59 PM

#1920

Pat Kuester (Bowen)

Yes, Lynne & Don you're right, but you've got to remember when you go to bed to pull the tarp over your cute little cabin that's shaped just like a life boat.

03/17/09 08:38 PM

#1921

Mark Overstreet

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Who out there has Irish ancestry?
My grandmother was a Murphy. When we went to Ireland and were doing some genealogy and found that half of the folks in Ireland are Murphy! Anyone working on their family's history? Sometimes it takes a long time before you get a lead. I made our traditional Irish/American dinner of brisk, cabbage and potatoes for dinner. I cook dinner every other day now that I retired. Rosa still has four more years of teaching.

03/17/09 10:58 PM

#1922

Pat Kuester (Bowen)

I have two hobbies cross stitch & genealogy. I have an ancester who came to Virginia in the 1620s. He was massacred by Pocahontis' brother, or at least his cronies.

03/17/09 11:22 PM

#1923

Carol Maddex (Switzer)

My husband is Irish. I too cooked the traditional corned beef and cabbage. I cook it every year for the cute little man. Jim's grandmother came from Ireland. She was an O'Grady. Jim's father also Irish. You thought Smith is a very common name here in America, try doing genealogy in Ireland.

03/18/09 08:07 AM

#1924

Pat, I've been wanting to ask you this. My mothers maiden name is Bowen. That would be odd if we were related somehow. My grandfather's name was Earl Raymond Bowen and went by the name of "Red" Bowen. My mom has lots of cousins by the name of Bowen living in your area. Just a thought?

Well, I brought the puppy home last night. I was up all night long. Am I ready for this stuff again. hum She is so adorable and cute, I think Maurene's husband spoiled each and every pupppy. It was kinda sad because it was hard for him to part with the puppy last night. Maurene will be making her journey back home to Morgan Hill on Thursday. Anyone need a puppy, Maurene has a pure black one left, he is really pretty if ya like boy dogs.

Update on Mom: Mom is doing great, she goes in to have the stitches removed this afternoon.

Take care,

Lorene

03/18/09 10:22 AM

#1925

I have some Irish, French, and Spanish in my background.

One day after a softball game in Panama some of the guys were talking about Puerto Rico. I said "I'm Puerto Rican'. They gave me the what for, I said "My grandfather was born in San Juan". The froze, looked at each other, and handed me a beer. (the beer part is an embelishment but the general idea was partial acceptance.) There was originally an s at the end of my last name DEYNES. So in Spanish I figuer it should have been "day ee ness". When he entered the Navy, the S was left off and he went with the flow. How it came to be pronounced "dine" I dunno. Any way grandpa Sam married a French lady named Mildred. So maybe she changed the pronunciation and he went with the flow again/still.

My mother's side (paternal name Hughes, often wonder if Howard's estate owes me money) was Irish and I guess English. About all I know is that my great great ancestors either ran with or after the Dalton gang. They lived in Coffeyvill, Kansas, where the townfolk stood up to the gang and shot most of them.

And that's the way it was. Or so they say.

03/18/09 10:34 AM

#1926

My brother did our family genology, and put it all on a CD for all of my sons. I will have to pay more attention to it, it was a very interesting story.

Don, I do have an aunt that was Miss Coffyvill, in a beauty pagent. That was way before she met my uncle and married. Her family is still there.

My Mom's maiden name was Fitzgerald so I always assumed that was Irish.

Have a great day everyone.

03/18/09 11:55 AM

#1927

Pat Kuester (Bowen)

Marsha, Depending on whether you're related to Dolly or James, we could be cousins. I am related to Dolly. Of course, if you're an creationist, we are all related. If you're a evolutionist, we're all related to a newt.

03/18/09 06:27 PM

#1928

Yes Lynne I too would think Fitzgerald is an Irish name.

Finally remembered my grandmothers last name, Jarvis. Pretty sure she and Karl Hughes were both from the Coffeyville area.

Likly I'd think our kin knew each other way back when.

03/18/09 07:29 PM

#1929

Sandra Harris (Lint)

Hey Lynne, Rose Kennedy's maiden name was Fitzgerald. Maybe your related to the Kennedy's. My Dad said we were somehow related to Gen. Joseph Hooker. It is said that is how the Hookers got their name. It seems in the Civil War one of the goals was to keep the men happy. They'd go to town and bring the "girls" back to camp to entertain the men. Pretty soon they were called Hooker's girls and then just Hookers. I remember thinking "This is just the kind of guy we would be related to." Oh well..Have a good evening...Sandi

03/18/09 10:47 PM

#1930

Hi Sandi,
Hookers that sounds like a subject topic for Mike Lampman, we always seem to go down that road with his Hawiian lingo......lol

I've been told we were 7th cousins to the Kennedy's, I do remember my Grandfather and Uncle being very active in the election of John Kennedy.

Don, my little aunt that was Miss Coffyvill was married to my mom's brother, so she was just my aunt by marriage.

This stuff is pretty interesting. My brother took our family history of the Scales name way back to the knights and castles and war time back then. I guess I should have paid more attention to what he was telling me, just like in high school.....not paying attention..what can I say?

03/18/09 10:48 PM

#1931

LET ME BE THE FIRST TO SAY A BIG PIRATE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAURENE AND LORENE BUSTEED TOMORROW.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU BOTH!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY.

LOVE YOU BOTH,
LYNNE

03/19/09 12:22 AM

#1932

Carol Maddex (Switzer)

Happy Birthday Lorene and Maurene. You two share your birthday with my husband. Have a wonderful day. You both deserve a nice day with everything you two have been thru. Blessing to a great day.

Carol

03/19/09 02:15 PM

#1933

Click anywhere to order.

03/19/09 05:26 PM

#1934

Marianna Brown (Schechter)

A great BIG Happy Birthday to Lorene and Maurene. Blessings to you both. I hope things are getting better for you.

03/19/09 06:38 PM

#1935

Genealogy can be a very fun and exciting hobby. I had a good friend that lived in northern Washington that did genealogy as a business. She did ancestry for others and got paid very well for doing it. One of the most important things that she taught me was that unless you have the documentation to back you up, it is all just words. I have been going genealogy for over 25 years and have found out some very incredible things. The first in my family line to be born in the 'new land' was in 1632 in Braintree, Massachusetts. The Mayflower landed in 1620. John Adams and John Quincy Adams and I share a common line. I also have a great-great grandmother that was named the 'Mother of Texas' by General Sam Houston.

03/19/09 07:26 PM

#1936

Patricia Hamilton (Denham)

Marianna, that is very true. Getting documentation can take a great deal of time, but is well worth all the searching. I have found some wonderful family as a result of my searching, met a few on line as a matter of fact and also hooked up with some that I had not seen since I was a small child. We have shared lots of photos and census records. What I really love is searching cemeteries.

03/19/09 07:42 PM

#1937

I love this genealogy stuff. Maybe when I join the unemployed I will have the time to get into it. I have one wonderful newspaper article about my great-great grandmother (the only grandmother I knew) and her father. I read it over and over and still find something new. Her father changed his name when he came here from Germany so I don't know how that will affect me trying to find stuff. My great aunt did a family tree but when she passed on she donated everything to the church so I was unable to get any of the old letters and memorabilia that she had. She had tons of it. My people were German, Irish and Scottish. I have no idea what my grandfather on my mother's side was. I would love to know.

03/19/09 07:43 PM

#1938

I had almost forgotten something from high school till the genealogy thing came up. In my junior year I had Mr. Broyles for U.S. History. One of the things he had us try to do a genealogy of our family. Back then I knew next to nothing about my ancestry and there was no one willing to answer any questions for me. (Seems there were some skeletons in our closet). Anyway as it turns out I have a lot of Boyles in my ancestry and Mr. Broyles may be one of my "cousins".

03/19/09 07:47 PM

#1939

Mark Overstreet

Wow! You folks have some great history in your families. Most of my family has passed away. My dad had eight brothers and sisters (from Kansas). I had four cousins and only met them in 1995. Three passed away. Very, very little family belongings (including my dad's) were saved. I put together what I could. My main documents are census, birth and death records. I even sent out a mass mailing to Overstreets. I got some interesting responses.

03/19/09 07:51 PM

#1940