For over ten years now Curtis and I have been working on our families histories together and for about five years we have had this website.  Some time ago we upgraded from the free website to the paid service.  Anyone who is a regular visitor would have noticed that the pop-up ads stopped popping up!!  Of course, visitor convenience was one reason why we went to a paid site.  We realize how annoying it is when you want to look at something and an ad for whatever comes popping out at you. 

Another thing that came along with the paid service was being able to see where our visitors were located.  It was amazing!!  We found out that people from all over the world are visiting our website!  I could be all day typing in locations where our visitors are from; I guess the only area of the world I didn’t see was Antarctica.  I was floored!  I also felt like I haven’t been doing enough to keep the website interesting, to keep it a place that you will all want to keep coming back to again and again. Our lives ARE incredibly busy, but we will make every effort to keep the site updated as much as possible. We will keep trying to add more information on the families and to add stories and photos as we make new discoveries. 

Recently life has gotten in the way of out ‘quest for the dead’ as I call it.  We haven’t been able to spend as much time researching as we would like and even less time working on this website.  Not only have we not had much time to research, but also when we do, we seem to be at an impasse on some of the family lines.  We have hit brick walls that we are having trouble breaking through.  “Can’t” is not in our vocabulary when it comes to genealogy, however, it will just take time and patience.  In the meantime, when life, kids, homes, chickens, surgeries, broken bones, various illnesses etc. aren’t too much of a hindrance we will be chipping away at those brick walls.