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…

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…

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…

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 but there were several farms carved out of the countryside. My grandmother’s both grew up on original homesteads…

I may not be the world’s best blogger, but I know how to collect links and make a top ten list. I stayed up until sunrise on June 15th or more accurately the morning of June 16th, reading reports, and writing down my thoughts. I also participated in the discussion going on simultaneously while people watched the riots unfold on TV…