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We don’t have a lot of little kids in my immediate family, but my sister has two dogs.  They are Lab crosses and they are a lot of work. None the less my sister dressed them up and took them down to the local mall to enter them into a costume contest sponsored by Woofy’s. [...]

I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours entering Muschamp ancestors into Reunion 9 from “Northumberland Families Volume One” augmented by other sources.  My biggest contribution is filling out the Emerson Muschamp portion of the family tree found on page 49.  I also have some notes on other Muschamps who were born in the 1900s.  [...]

A couple times now I’ve been tasked with creating a family tree for family reunions.  Finally I decided to invest in some software and merge all the information I had or could find easily into one big family tree.  The software I bought was Reunion 9 which is expensive and Mac-only.  However I did some [...]

Today was the first decent day in the last few so we got up early and finished our overhaul of the shrubberies near the front door of my mom’s house. I’d started on it last week, but I guess I got lazy and the weather got worse. We decided to add some new plants in [...]

My family has lived on Vancouver Island a long time, before Canada, before British Columbia, Vancouver Island was a colony in the British Empire.  My family came from Ireland and Scotland mostly, some came via the Australian penal colony even. My ancestors settled in the Cowichan Valley and Union Bay, many of them became loggers [...]