Trace your family tree

This post is a shameless plug to get you interested in searching out your ancestors. At familysearch.org, you can get a sign-in and do some research or just see the research that has already been done. If you are LDS, use your member sign in that you would look up the ward phone list with. If you're not LDS, you can create a log in of your own.

I am new at it and was showing my dad while he was here this weekend. We found a line on his mother's side that went back to the 1400's. So I was trying to show Melody but went back on a different line. As you go back farther in time, there are many different lines of descendancy. Most of them, I have not looked at yet. But lots of research has been done on my dad's maternal side. Here is just one: (maiden names; dates are year of birth, places are place of birth)
I am the daughter of Richard Holmes. He is the son of Queenie Rain Tedder, 1901 McIntosh, Alabama. She is the daughter of Stella Margaret Rush, 1881 McIntosh Alabama. She is the daughter of
Erminia Collier Rain, daughter of
Daniel Cornelius Rain, son of
Cornelius Rain, McIntosh, Alabama, son of
Margaret Carney, St. John's Parish, Georgia, daughter of
Elizabeth Aderton, born 1733, Rowan North Carolina, dau of
Anne Price Luckett, born 1719, Charles Maryland, dau of
Thomas Hussey Luckett, Pt. Tobacco Parish, Charles, Maryland, son of
Elizabeth Hussey, 1667, Charles Maryland, dau of
Thomas Hussey, 1615, All Hallows, London, England, son of
John Hussey, 1600, Harby, Lincolnshire, England, son of
Mary Wroth 1563 Durants, Enfield, Middlesex, England, dau of
Thomas Wroth 1516, Durants, Enfield, Middlesex, England, son of
Robert Esq. Wroth, 1482 Bishopsbourne, Kent England, son of
Averia Mortimer daughter of
Sir John Mortimer 1368, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales and Joan de Beaufort 1375 born at Chauteau de beauf, Meese, France. She is the daughter of
Prince Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, 29 Nov 1338 in Antwerp Belgium, son of
Edward de Plantagenet III 1312, son of
Edward II Pantagenet 1284, son of
King Edward I of England 1239 and Eleanor of Castile, Edward I is the son of
Henry II 1133 and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England born in La Mans, France. Henry is the son of
Matilda, Empress of England born 1102, daughter of King Henry I Beauclerc of England 1068, son of
King William I Conqueror born 1028 married Matilda de Flanders

My daughter-in-law is a descendant of Eric the Red and my son is a descendant of William the Conqueror. This totally explains my grandson Ben's behavior! :-)

It's fun. Go see where your lines of ancestry lead! I haven't even looked at most of mine yet. I have a lot more to do.

Of bunnies, opposable thumbs, and stuck accelerators

I read James Michener’s Hawaii when my second child was a babe in arms. Just a few years ago J. One thing I remember is the Chinese immigrants brought to be laborers would get married in China, leave a week or so later, send money home over the years, expecting to return one day, but of course, they never were able to return. So one guy acquires a ‘concubine’ after coming to Hawaii (since he already had a real wife, he can’t marry her ) and they tell their children about their “real” mother in China, who of course is not their real mother in any sense. So I have this bunny. Her “real owner” lives in Hawaii, a certain Miss Claudya Compton. But she will probably never really live with Claudya again. She’s mine to take care of, with a little help from Joy who thinks she’s the real owner.  But I am the one who takes pity on the bunny when it’s raining or snowing outside, buys her food, and feels guilty about her caged life.

She got sick recently and we have to hand feed her.  So I get up a little earlier to have to time to feed her before work. Then I send texts to Keith so he will feed her when he’s home in the late afternoon between jobs. It struck me this evening that I didn’t think at all about what Nathan would eat all day but I thought about poor bunny. This is probably because he has opposable thumbs and can open a frig and operate a microwave, the total extent of his survival skills. The only survival skill available to a caged bunny is to look cute and somewhat pitiful at the same time.

And, my car broke today. It hasn’t needed any work in four years so I guess I can’t complain. The accelerator is stuck. At a zillion rpms. No, that’s not an exaggeration. I think I scared Nathan who was with me when it happened. I thought that only happened in movies. So Keith came and rescued me, called a tow truck and will ride his bike to work so I can take his car tomorrow. I guess I would’ve called one of the boys if he weren’t around but it was so nice to have him take care of it for me.

So I have an 8 to 5 job in the accounts payable department at BYU. And I graduate magna cum laude from the Woodbury school of business at UVU later this month. I am loving my capstone class, which I heard so many negative stories about that I was scared to take it. I have taken to the capsim business simulation like a duck to water  and am having lots of fun. My team submitted our last round last night and we have a couple hundred point lead in the class.

Richard, I want to hear about your trip to Peru. Alden, I want to hear about your job. Melody got a passport so I guess the State Department decided she was real after all. It only took 5 months. (They think I'm a flake because she was born at home with a midwife and it took me 14 months to get her birth certificate-red flags, I guess.)  She needs to get some cavities filled and then she will submit papers to go on a mission. It’s a full life!