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April 2002

Revamped website - The whole website gets overhauled.

Palmers: meeting cousins: Found Rick's cousins in Charlotte County, Virginia. Connie Lawson gave me Rick's ancestors back to the early 1800's and I found unsubstantiated history from there back to the 1600's. Plans to meet with the Palmers of Virginia.

Additions this month: Page for each surname; dropdown surname menu,

March 2002

Rushton News - Cousin Linda Grant sent me a HUGE packet of Rushton information, including my great-great grandpa Hiram's 1853 birth certificate from Lancashire, England and the death record of Eliza Schmachtenberger, his wife, in 1919 in St. Thomas, Canada.

Palmers: I sent to Wayne County, MI, for William M. Palmer's death certificate.

More on the Schmachtenbergers: Received a packet from the Williams County, Ohio, Library with bios on Benjamin Schmachtenberger and cemetery records for his family.

Additions this month: more mystery photos, updated Rushton and Billings trees, archives

January 2002

Canada Cemetery Trip: Tombstone photos of the Billings, Rushton, Watson families, and found Billings and Watson ancestors to the 1700s in England.

Additions this month: Unknown photos page

November 2001

Sad family news: Ariel Billings Goodridge passes.

Newfound cousin: Met Schmachtenberger cousin Pat Kiel and we exchanged lots of info. 

Thanks to the volunteers: Irv Morse sends literally dozens of Indiana records.

September 2001

Watson photo bonus: Debi Burgess in Missouri finds dozens of photos in a California attic, and locates me thru Rootsweb!

More new photos: Turn of the century Rushton and Schmachtenberger photos found in my grandmother's house.

Kissin' cousins: Interesting relationship discovered in my husband's line.