Update

Hello, everyone!

I apologize for not posting in a few months.  I tend to start a project and keep with it for a little while, but life got in the way this time.  Since my first post I have packed a house, moved, gone on a vacation, and had a major change at work.  Life is just moving a million miles a minute around here!

Mike and I are still living outside of Austin.  We moved a little further out in to suburbia.  Which is great for us.  It is pretty quiet out here and our friends are close by.  Which is nice to have.

At the end of June, there was a small family reunion with my Mom's side of the family.  I was able to see aunts, uncles, and cousins I haven't seen in a while.  I spent time with my lovely Gramma, who I love so much and haven't seen in a long time.  While catching up with Gramma, I was granted access to her picture collection.  There are fantastic photos from the 1940s to the early 2000s in her collection and I was so happy to look through them!  We decided as a group that we would like to archive the pictures into a digital format.  Guess who decided to take on the responsibility?  You guessed it!  I am super excited to give it a try.  I will be ordering a scanner next week during Amazon's Prime Day sale.  It will take some long hours of work, but I can't wait.  My cousin has already worked up a website to upload everything to.  I just have to get organized on that front.

What I am most excited about receiving from Gramma are two volumes of genealogy books for the George Wells and Lucy Stark-Wells family.  George and Lucy are my 3rd great grandparents on my mothers side.  Back in 1974, Kemble Stout collected information on the ancestors and descendants of the Wells and published two volumes with her findings.  Kemble used information from family historian Stella McWilliams Wells and other books and information.  These volumes go back EIGHT generations from George and Lucy Wells, which means I have access to information from the mid 1500s on this side of the family.  I also have information from George and Lucy Wells down to my mother's generation, this includes so many second and third cousins that we never knew about before.

I am more excited than ever for this project now.  I will keep everyone updated as I forge on!

Have a good evening!