A new basket

Oh dear. There is a new, limited edition Longaberger basket available. It is specific to the Fraternal Order of Police. You can check it out at:

http://www.basketsforheros.com/

I don't get any commission from this but if you do want more baskets, you know where to find me! So see the picture, go to the order form. It is a card basket with an engraved lid, star tacks, blue trim, metal tag. I do know where you can get a protector (why wasn't that included?) and a liner if you want :D.

It is a good cause.

Done pushing Longaberger to unsuspecting LJ readers.

Family History

I have been working on both of our family's history. I have subscribed to Ancestry on line, which has been very helpful. I was also lucky enough to have scored my paternal grandmother's maternal mother's family Bible. It wasn't updated since my great great uncle Stephen passed in 1931. For that matter, my grandparent's marriage isn't in it.

Due to the information in the Bible, I have tracked my paternal grandmother's family back to at least 1812. I have to decide if Ezekiel and Chlory Burgefs became Burgess later in life and if they (E&C) are the parents of Edwin (who appears to be my great great grandfather and his second wife my great great grandmother Frankie). They would have been my grandmother Rafferty's grandparents. Edwin was married previously to Diantha, I can find no record of any children and she passed in July, 1863. Edwin remarried in Dec, 1863 and proceeded to have 3 children by Carrie. Guess men didn't mourn too long back then. He was 25 years older than she. Ewww.

If Ezekiel and Chlory are my relatives, I have tracked back to the 1700s. The paternal side came from Ireland so I have to try and figure them out. I am sure there aren't very many John Rafferty's in Ireland. What a chore that might be. I will probably have to begin ordering death certificates and see who John's parents were.

My cousin was doing quite a bit on his paternal side (my maternal family). I am more of an equal opportunity searcher, I want to know all my relatives on both sides. I wouldn't mind a good jail story or two.

The internets are running slow

How many of you "get" my subject???

If I didn't know better, I would swear I am back on dial-up. It is running slow on all computers in the house. I ran spybot, etc. so that is not it. I closed down all my other open windows, that is not it.

Just frustrating when one is trying to update the on-line Family Tree and I could make some branches in the time it takes to upload...and I don't want to be contributing any branches to the family tree, thank you very much.

Nothing new on A&E tonight. We watched Shark Tale this afternoon, not as funny as Finding Nemo but there were some moments. Now that I know whose voice is whose, I will have to watch it again and see if the fish fits. I would have pegged the Angelina Jolie character to be Beyonce but what do I know?