Well since this is my first post here I will tell a little bit about my true passion, genealogy. It started when I was very young. Though I never had the chance to embrace it until the birth of my third child.

My grandmother Olivia Joyce (Jenkins) Woolsey was my dad's mother. She was a bit nosey and a pack rat. It use to drive my mother crazy, but she was my grandmother and I use to love to go over there and spend the day. She always had lots of little old things to look at and ask about.

Looking back now I wished I would have asked more questions about her life. I guess when you are a child you never think about how some day that person may no longer be with us. Looking back now though I think she saw my passion for history and my desire to know more about our family.

One day we were standing out on her big front porch. I must have been oh about 10. I know grandpa had been dead for a while. I must have been asking her about our family and the ancestors I didn't know, I'm not sure. All I remember of the conversation is that grandma said "you know we once had a family book that was burned in a fire back in Oklahoma. I remember seeing it when I was young and one thing I remember was that we were related to Daniel Boone. I don't remember anymore how, but he was in that book."

I never forgot that conversation with Grandma. I was always curious about it and never missed an oppertunity to read about Daniel Boone and others of that time and area that could have been my ancestors.

Then when my third child, our baby girl was born I gave up my career in sales and began my new life as a stay at home mom. I quickly found myself bored and always looking for something to.

Then one day I was watching a favorite old show of my "Little House on the Paraire" I got curious with the internet if there was more information on line now about her life and the books, which I had read every last on of them as a child. So I started looking. I soon found my self on Ancestry.com looking for my own family. And as they say "the rest is history."

Two and a half years later I have a files cabinet full of research on our family and beganning to use my skills to make a living at this by researching other peopls families. I love every minute of it.

Last night I just finished a 200 page book of a family that are gathering for a family reunion in August. As much as putting to gether the report was torture I wouldn't trade it for any other proffesion in the world. It's the research, the hunt for our ancestors that is so fun and rewarding in so many ways.

So if you've ever been curious about your heritage just start looking. Your ancestors are begging to be found. They want you to know them and preserve their memory. As always I'm always glad to help anyone interested to began their search.