Thanks to Denise Foley Ford, I have updated the family data base to trace the descendants of Melzar Winslow and Mary Octavia Picraux (along with her ancestors). This allowed me to update information previously shared by another descendant, Murllin Howetter, who shared data on this family in 2002. There had been some uncertainty about Mary’s [...]

With all the hype earlier last week about the troubles that the three-week advance in Daylight Saving Time might mean to Microsoft products, etc., we managed to survive the test reasonably well. So far, no issues with the changeover. Many people were expecting their calendars to be disrupted, etc. I simply too the precaution of [...]

This site has been updated to the latest Word Press software (version 2.1.2). Earlier this week, hackers were able to corrupt some installations of version 2.1.1, and all Word Press bloggers have been asked to install the updated software to correct the problem.