www.herald-review.com/articles/2009/08/2...

When the geneology bug hit Tracy Logsdon finding his relatives took on a whole new meaning. The Cowden man found out that he has the power to douse graves in cemeteries which led him to various family members in the Ransom Cemetery in Fayette County.

I thought this was an interesting article.

www.macon.com/197/story/756578.html

www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/18/death.online...

I received an email from a fellow "find a grave" contributor today.  I certainly appreciate her emailing me.  She had been out to the country cemetery that my great-great grandparents are buried in and saw that their grave marker had been broken.  She found my contribution on Find a Grave and wrote to tell me about it.  We have contacted a monument company to try and fix it.  I don't know if someone deliberately broke it or if a strong wind snapped it.  Either way, it was over 100 years old and I just hate that it's broken.  

I have uploaded the 2 pages of the German journal to my public gallery.  Thanks.

Thanks to everyone who helped transcribe this journal!  Y'all are the best!

Is there anyone on here that can read German handwriting?  I have a couple small pages that I would like translated.  I contacted someone who does this and he wanted $50 a page.  I just can't afford that.  Please contact me on here if you can help.  Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for their help!

This looks interesting!  Legend Seekers

WARNING: Very contagious to adults.

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression and is sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking for records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mail carrier when s/he does not leave mail.

Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret calls at night. Hides phone bills.

TREATMENT: There is no known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the house where s/he can be alone with his/her computer.

REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is.....the sicker the patient gets, the more s/he enjoys it!

Genealogy Taglines.

It's a wonder that we can find anything out on our ancestors.  I know that some of you probably have had the same situations but our family seems to really take the cake.

First, after being a "Lynn" all my life, I find out that biologically I am a Hughes.  This is because of my grandmother divorcing her first husband and her second husband adopted the kids when they were young.

My husband (whose mother was adopted in Bulgaria, no traces there) always thought that he was a "Woller" all his life.  It was a family joke that he looked like "uncle John" who was not his uncle, just a close friend of the family.  His mother was pregnant when she married his dad.  Come to find out, uncle John is most likely his biological father.  We will learn more on this soon. 

Then there is the possibility that his daughter is not really his.  His wife was fooling around.  The daughter doesn't know this.

My step-mom had her DNA done, along with her brother so they could get both the maternal and paternal results.  They are very close matches (within 3 generations) to the Edgar family.  Huh?  There are no Edgars in their family.  She is doing some research and found there was an Edgar living in their county who was a bank president.  He died the year after my step-mom's father was born.  Her grandfather also worked at a bank.   So is her father really the son of this Edgar who maybe was adopted out after Edgar's death?  Did grandma have a fling with the bank president?  Who knows?  There is no one left alive to tell.  It is confusing my step-mom and all these Edgars who are in the Edgar DNA project.

And we wonder why we have all these brick walls in our research...geeze!