• What's New: Where are you and how did you get there?
• This month's Feature:  The children of Robert and Marie's son Louis PEPIN and his wife Anne Elizabeth BOUTIN.
• A Poem
• Cousin Speak
• Glo's Links
• Missing Links
• Ramblings from the Editor
• Newsy Bits
• NewsLetter info

WHAT'S NEW

I went up to Vancouver BC a couple weekends ago and, despite the transit strike, I managed to work in a visit with cousin Marcel.  We talked family and what I've been thinking about doing with the web site.  One of the things I've really been thinking about is a picture page for the web site, with a picture of each of us (doesn't matter if it's recent -- I was going to use my high school graduation picture).  Marcel came up with an even cooler idea.

One of his many talents is map making.  His idea is to take a map of North America and plot out the cities where each of us live and THEN track back along the immigration routes each of our branches took to get there.  He already has the map of North America created, and he knows where his immediate family is, and he knows where my immediate family is, but before I volunteered the locations of those of you I do know, I kinda figured it would be just plain common courtesy to ask first.

What excites me about this is the potential for finding leads to lost bits of the tree from the resultant migration patterns.

See, during certain time frames there were only a few ways to get from Point A to Point B.  The first few generations of our family is the easy part -- we started out in Québec City -- it's the stuff that comes after the mid-1800s that's a bit pesky.

One example is my branch of the family -- mostly because it's the one I know best.  My great great great grandmother Marguerite was baptized at St-Michel's in Yamaska Québec.  Her eldest child Michel-Etienne was also born and baptized there, a year after she and the boy's father married.  Michel-Etienne May came west in 1827 -- as Etienne Pepin -- along a route familiar to most any Hudson Bay employed voyageur of the early part of the 19th century, winding up in what is now the Fraser Valley of British Columbia.  His daughter married a man living in what is now southwestern Washington state; his elder son is unaccounted for, and his youngest son moved to San Juan Island, then to Ballard (near Seattle), where we've pretty much settled in for the duration, though a few of us live in California <she says waving hello to Sherry, Kevin, Jason, Nicole, and Marcus>.

So for Marguerite Pepin May's descendants, there's be dots in Québec at Québec City, and Yamaska, with a line squiggling west along an assortment of rivers and portages to Fort Vancouver, then north from Fort Vancouver along a series of rivers, lakes, portages, Puget Sound, and the Fraser River, up to Fort Langley, and finally, with a dot on San Juan Island's Cattle Point (in the north Puget Sound/south Georgia Straits/east Straits of Juan de Fuca), a giggle south to Seattle and, from Seattle, two squiggles south to California, with dots in Sacramento and the greater LA area.

*I* think this is a really cool idea.  If you do, too, email me your city and state/province and/or what you know of your branch's migration route.  When the map is done, it'll go up on the web site.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Louis PEPIN and his wife Anne Elizabeth BOUTIN.

Remember, before you go out and have these names and dates engraved upon the family silver, check'em in the Red and Blue Drouin, as well as the René Jetté, most especially the info on the older families.

Last month we looked at the children of Marie-Rosalie Pepin and hubby Pierre ÉLIE-BRETON.  This month we look at Marie-Rosalie's little brother Louis' family.

Louis PEPIN was baptized on 13 Feb 1686, but his burial date and place are unknown.

His wife, Anne Elizabeth BOUTIN, daughter of Jean BOUTIN and Marie-Anne FONTAINE, was baptized 14 Dec 1692 at L'Ancienne Lorette and buried 17 Nov 1744 at Charlesbourg.

Louis and Anne-Elizabeth married 17 Nov 1710 at L'Ancienne Lorette, and their 12 children are:

1.  Louis Michel PEPIN, baptized 15 Aug 1711; married Marguerite RENAULT on 4 Aug 1732 at Charlesbourg, Québec; buried "de morte subite" 15 Aug 1753.  13 children.

--Extra info on Marguerite.

...Marguerite was baptized in 1714, daughter of Pierre RENAUD and Jeanne-Thérèse DÉRY.

...Marguerite's second husband was Charles JOBIN, whom she married 26 Oct 1761 in Charlesbourg.

2.  Jean-Baptiste PEPIN baptized 19 Feb 1713

3.  Françoise-Gabriel PEPIN baptized 24 Feb 1718; buried 13 June 1727.

4.  Marie-Elisabeth PEPIN baptized 25 Dec 1719; married Jean-Baptiste ALARD 30 Sept 1732; buried before 1 Aug 1746.  6 children.

--Extra info on Jean-Baptiste ALARD.

...He was baptized 28 May 1710, son of André ALARD and Anne LEMARCHE.

...When Marie-Elisabeth died, he remarried to Maire AUCLAIR on 1 Aug 1746.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie had 4 children.

...He was buried 28 Sept 1751, in Québec.

5.  Marie-Louise PEPIN baptized 13 Nov 1721; married Antoine  CRÉPIN 10 Nov 1750 in Charlesbourg.  6 children.

--Extra info on Antoine CRÉPIN

...He was the first generation of his North American line.

...His parents are Antoine CRÉPIN and Nicole SAVARY, of "St-Jose, diocèse d'Amiens".

6.  Pierre PEPIN baptized 14 Feb 1724; married Marie-Joseph VERRET 22 Sept 1749 in Charlesbourg, 3 children; married Marie SAUCIER 20 Sept 1756 in Yamachiche, 7 children.

--Extra info on Marie-Joseph VERRET

...She was baptized 22 Dec 1723, daughter of Jean VERRET and Marie-Joseph DE L'ESPINAY

...Prior to Pierre, she was married to MIchel BERTHIAUME on 22 Oct 1739 at Ste-Foye.  Marie-Joseph and Michel had 4 children.

...She was buried 9 Aug 1754.

--Extra info on Marie SAUCIER

...She is the daughter of Joseph SAUCIER and Madeleine BOUCHER

7.  Marguerite PEPIN baptized 14 April 1726; married Charles SAVARD 10 Nov 1749.  No children listed.

--Extra info on Charles SAVARD

...He was baptized 5 May 1727, and is the son of Jean-François SAVARD and Marie-Marguerite RENAULT/RENAUD

8.  Jacques-François PEPIN, baptized 24 Feb 1728; married Marie-Geneviève RENAULT 23 July 1753 in Charlesbourg.  2 children.

--Extra info on Marie-Geneviève RENAULT

...She was baptized 14 Sept 1737, and is the daughter of Charles RENAULT dit DACHEMIN and Marie-Jeanne BALAN dit LACOMBE

9.  Joseph-Charles PEPIN, baptized 12 April 1730

10.  André PEPIN, baptized 30 May 1732; buried 9 July 1733

11.  François-Alexis PEPIN, baptized 28 April 1734

12.  Marie-Charlotte PEPIN, baptized 29 April 1736; married Joseph ROUFIAT 9 Jan 1758, no children; married Pierre SAUCIER 3 Nov 1762 at Yamachiche, 1 child

--Extra info on Joseph ROUFIAT

...baptismal date unknown, he is the first North American generation of his line and the son of Jean-Pierre ROUFIAT and Anne BERNARD of St-Salvy, diocese of d'Alby, Languedoc

...he was "Grenadier au régiment de la Riene"

...he died before 3 nov 1762

--Extra info on Pierre SAUCIER

...baptized 18 April 1730, he is the son of Joseph SAUCIER and Madeleine BOUCHER -- making him the brother of Marie SAUCIER, the second wife of (6)Pierre PEPIN.

If you see something that doesn't quite agree with your personal family history, e-mail me and tell me about it.

A Poem, forwarded by Glo (it made me smile)

COUSIN SPEAK

Over the past few months some of you have written with comments I feel are note worthy.  If you want to see more, or have more to add, let me know and we'll do it in the next newsletter.

On 18 Dec 2000, Glo Carr writes:

   "Found yet another cousin from the Brault side. My great grandmother (Eva Brault) married Ernest Pepin, this woman wrote telling me she is related by one of Eva's siblings. Cousins are coming out of the woodwork!!! She remembers the Pepins from my area (Mass.) Is this fun or what?  :)"

On 28 Dec 2000, the following was posted to the MetisGen mailing list.  Anyone know which branch of the family Lorraine belongs to?

   "Katherine Lorraine (Pepin) Loberg. 75, died peacefully on Nov. 5, 2000.  She was born March 5, 1925 in Havre to Adolph and Katherine Ann (Molitor) Pepin.  She married Melvin Loberg in Saco on Dec. 16, 1954.  She was an accomplished musician and played the piano, organ and accordion by ear.  She is survived by her husband Mel; children Linda Vance, Tom and Kim Loberg, Marsha and Kirk Johnson, Cheryl Loberg and husband Doug Robinson, and Jim and Gloria Taylor; grandchildren John, Rebecca, Cole, Ryan, Wendy Stacy, and sister Mary Louise Atkinson."

On 1 Jan 2001, Joan Tschida writes, regarding the Langlois extravaganza:

   "I saw the name Belanger and want to let it known that I have much info on Joseph Belanger of MN, an early river boat pilot, first white settler of Anoka, MN, later of Little Canada, MN, and friend of Father Joseph Goiffon.  Jos. Belanger had two wives, the 2nd Elise Labonne. He & 2nd wife "adopted" my grandmother, Jessie who m. my grandfather Pepin.  Also have an abundance of records of Fr. Goiffon, and all church records of St. John the Evangelist church of Little Canada, MN. dating from 1851."

On 1 Jan 2001, Glo Carr writes in regards to her Langlois line:

  "The Joseph Langlois I cannot find . . . ?  I have more info on him.  It seems he moved out West somewhere to find work in woodworking.  Rumor has it he was a cabinetmaker.  If I can I will try to search death records online for Michigan.  It seems that a lot of folks went there. (Go West Young Man!)  It is as good a place as any to start.  Also another idea - Try researching (this goes way way, back) our Pepin ties to "Pepin, the Short" descendant of Charlemagne.  An idea for your next newsletter, maybe?  I do have info on that (somewhere) let me know."

On 2 Jan 2001, Jan Knowlton writes regarding locations for the still-on-the-drawing-board North American Pepin Family Reunion:

   "Las Vegas is the cheapest place in the world to stay $39.00 a night.  There are a lot of deals out there."

On 2 Jan 2001, Des Pepin write regarding locations for the still-on-the-drawing-board North American Pepin Family Reunion:

   "I vote for Quebec City, Canada."

On 6 Jan 2001, Andy Pepin writes:

   "I'm a member to the "American-Canadian Genealogical Society.  They are the largest society of Canadian records in the New England States.  Their headquarters are as follows: American Canadian Genealogical Society--P.O.Box 6478--Manchester, N. H.  03108-6478.  Their web site is http://www.acgs.org.  I'm not sure if you can speak French but I am well versed in French and can help translate for you.  I'm in the process of getting some information ready to send you on my particular leg of the descendents of Robert and Marie Crete Pepin so you can add it to your information."

On 16 Feb 2001, Lucille Hoag -- one of quite possibly many cross overs from my Children of Fort Langley web site -- writes:

   "Saw your list of surnames and was wondering which Duchesneau names you might have as that name is in my family; in fact, my grandmother was a Duchesneau.  I have tracked back the family back to France and located some relatives back in New Hampshire and in Minnesota.

"Actually, there about ten names found on your list and in my and my husband's families:  Baril, Champagne, Cloutier, Duchesneau, Hebert, Landry, Levesque, Letourneau, Morrisette and Vallaincourt, that I am sure of without even checking my lists."

[Editor Note:  If you would like to talk to Lucille, email me and I'll put you in contact.]

On 4 March 2001, a fellow named Jack Carter sent me the following:

   "My name is Jack Carter and my mother was a Manning.  In my search in the Manning ancestry, I strayed back to Symon Manning abt. 1240.  I found also at abt 1400 a John Manning married a Juianna Brockhill, this led me back to Pepin I Generation 1,  where it starts with: "Child of Pepin 1 is Begga b. of Brabant; d. 698 at age 80 years of age", indicating she was bn. abt 613AD.

   "My question is, do you have connections with this Pepin 1.  If interested in checking the site out, beginning with Pepin 1, you can find it at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/u/l/CINDY-C-PULCIFERLEUTZ/GENE6-0001.html

   "Note:  I am at present using the search engine 'Google' but my primary and where I found the above URL was at  'Webcrawler'.  I say that because you may not find it on a different search engine."

On 11 March 2001, Jim Dick says:

   "Can you provide a bit more specifics on your references 'Red & Blue Drouin' & 'Jette' - I can't find them?

   "Also, (after I took out the only copy of 'Our French Canadian Ansc. Vol. I' ), I came to realize that there is more than one volume !! Might be nice to note in future newsletters which volume you are referencing.  I am still trying to locate a complete set locally rather than invest $20 a volume at amazon.com prices."

[Editor Note: The Red and Blue Drouin and the Jetté are the only names I've ever heard them called -- in the Seattle Public Library's genealogy section as well as my local LDS family history center.  The only other clue I have on the Jetté is that it was compiled by a fellow named René Jetté.  As for the "Our French Canadian Ancestors", the copy I quoted from was on michrofiche at the Mountlake Terrace LDS family history center, but Jim is correct in that in its original form it is a multiple volume set of books.]

On 12 March 2001, Joan Tschida writes:

   "In looking at my group sheets, I see that 'my' Antoine was brother to your Marguerite, both children of Louis Etienne & Jeanne McClure.  I'm sure that you realize that these people often married into their own families, hopefully not too closely related.

   "I find a Pepin girl cousin of my grandfather marrying a Derusha (Desrosiers) and I have the Lemay line on my grandmother Pepin's side. (LeMay married a Rioux, their daughter my maternal great-grandmother). The name Antoine Pepin appears in the fur trade twice during the same time frame, one with the Hudson Bay Co., one with the Pacific.  There was an Antoine Pepin with the overland Astorian expedition, whom I have always thought to be my A.P.

   "Early Minnesota records show Antoine Pepin to be a blacksmith at the Fort ca 1832, having lived at Red River.  He was said to be "a faithful man, hard working and honest" and also that "he worked until his hands were swelled and blistered, making traps for poor Indians not able to buy any".  A.P. was one of the first citizens of St. Paul, MN in 1844.

   "My great grandfather Alex. was the son of Etienne-Pascal & Luce Ebert.  Etienne-Pascal's father was Louis who was brother to your Marguerite & Antoine.

   "I worked at the Minnesota Historical Society for ten years. Their address: www.mnhs.org and go through to visual resources . . . Joan Pepin.  So cool!  I haven't looked for Marg. Hamelin Pepin, or other Pepins though I donated many photos when I worked there.  A great place to work."

   On 26 March 2001, Glo writes regarding TV Chef Jacques Pepin:

   "I am still trying to find info on Jacques Pepin.(It's harder than I thought). I'll keep you posted. :)"

   On 10 April 2001, Glo sends this tid bit on Exzelia J Pepin:

   "Exzelia J. Pepin: Former postmaster of Havre, been in Havre nearly 30 years at time of bio.  He is nephew of Montana pioneer, Simon Pepin, one of the founders of Havre.  Simon Pepin reached Virginia City, Montana in the fall of 1863.

   "Born: November 25, 1867 in Canada

   "Parents: Alexander and Anastasia (Poirier) Pepin; both natives of Canada; Alexander died 1896 at age 67; Anastasia died at the same age; both Catholics; Exzelia was 4th in a family of 8 children, 5 of whom were living at time of bio.

   "Wife: Miss Anna Nemetz, native of Beaver Falls, Minnesota; married June 15, 1898

   "Child: Exzelia J., Jr."

     On 24 April 2001, I got email from a fellow named Devon Lachance, who offered up an intriguing comment.

    "Hello, my name is Devon Lachance and I'm here with my sister Denielle.  We were just looking at our family tree and when we typed in lachance family tree pepin showed up.  Our father Doug has told us before that our name was changed to Lachance when two brothers by the name of pepin arrived in Canada.  We couldn't find any names that we really recognized but are pretty sure that we have a connection to this liniage"

[Editor Note:  I wrote him back but have not yet gotten a reply]

   On 30 April 2001, Jeanne DeSantis writes:

   "Just wanted to tell you that I REALLY enjoyed reading about your searches into your family history.  I have researched my French-Canadian roots which came from my grandmother Grace Mary Labelle (lived near Malone, NY).  She always wondered where "Her Frenchies" came from.  I know she would have LOVED reading about her ancestors.  My brother Michael married a Diane Pepin from Glens Falls, NY.  This Spring I have been trying to research Diane's family to see if she and Michael have some common ancestors.

   "Mike and I have a couple of Pepins from the 1600's in our tree. Diane only knew that her grandfather, Romeo had a brother George and that he was born in 1893 in Chicago and moved to Hull when he was six.

   "I posted an inquiry at genforum.genealogy.com and got a reply today from Jacques Pepin who is the son of Jules Pepin who was a brother, along with George, to Romeo.  I loved reading his web site and followed a link from there to your site.  I am descended from Marie-Rosalie Pepin a daughter of Robert Pepin and Marie Crest.  She married a Pierre Elie or Helie DIT: Le Breton.  From there have Remillard and Roy who lived along the Richelieu River north of Lake Champlain.  Then Catherine Roy dies, but her husband Amable Jacques (who remarries)and children move into NY State north of Plattsburg.  Amable marries Justine Richer and they move to Fort Covington (tiny village north of Malone)by wagon train.  Their daughter, Sophronia Jacques/Jock marries Alexander Labelle.  Their youngest daughter (They had 16 kids!)(b 1898) Grace Mary marries Patrick H. McCarthy in 1919.  Their son, and my father, Patrick Henry McCarthy marries my mother Margaret.  I was born in Oswego, NY.  So we are related WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY BACK.

   "I am still amazed at how far the French-Canadians traveled west.  You have a wonderful and unique family tree.  What a lucky girl!  Thanks for some entertaining reading. Only fellow genealogists can appreciate the enthusiasm and joy our discoveries bring to us."

   On 3 May 2001, Libby Quanstrom writes:

   "some more people for you including myself!!" and included a list of the descendants of Pierre Elie Breton.  Any one interested in seeing it -- if it's okay with Libby for me to put it in the newsletter?

   On 4 May 2001, Gloria Carr writes:

   "Has anyone responded to the physical abnormalities part?"

     On 11 May 2001, Sharon Baysinger writes:

   "I am still looking to connect with Stephen E. Pepin's parents and siblings. Born 1863 in Chotaugay? NY. Married Alice Lucinda Cantrell.  Settled in Flora Vista NM and died in abt 1902."

Well, that should do it -- for now.  If you're still waiting to hear from me about something, email me again and give me a nudge.

GLO'S LINKS

*Click here: 1850 Pembina Census
Pepins & Pelletiers in here. Scroll down page to letter P."

* Click here: 27rrs
Scroll down to leter "P" there is an Antoine Papin - Pepin?

MISSING LINKS

I got this a while back and thought I'd run it past you all to see if you recognized any of the names or places.  With Gwen's permission, you can email her directly, just let her know I sent you.  <insert grin HERE>

On 8 Jan 2000, Gwen Tuck EEmpress80@aol.com writes:

   "I too have hit a brick wall with my ancestor named pippen or peppin, now I not really sure how his name is spelled.  But before I go off the deep end I want to say thank you.  I was ! beginning to believe I was losing it, I have ask multitudes of question on queries writing E-mail but no luck, not with any of my question.  Now here is the reason, my information is second handed and after all these years of holding it before I actually started working on it, I think I am missing something that was told to me.  But one of my contacts sent me a picture of my Thomas at least I think it's him .  When I place the picture next to my grandfather Bamm feature jump out ... the only difference is the complexion and hair.   this is the story told to me.

   "Thomas Peppin born in Russian Territory Alaska abt.1830-something was brought to America in Slavery around 1850.  He had wife and children but they were not found.  Thomas had children here so far I think I found two, Phaltial and William, Thomas's name was change to Thomas Tuck, He was a free man.  This what I think most of the Natives worked for the Russian-American fur company as well as the Hudson Bay Company.  I read in one Poor Copy Manuscript  that the Company's Traveled back and forth hiring Natives.  I think my Thomas went to England and possibly change his name   I not sure of  that either but I did find him in the ships listing for Foreign ports Victoria, B.C. on the Ship Isabell or Isabella and another ten years old on the blackwall I know that they were not just carrying goods.  They actually were prisoners and slave selling going.  You have so many names that my Cousin mentioned. she said Margaret was his wife's name.   Too many coincidence.  Most of the Pippen  researcher don't  think they ancestor had any relative around the area of the fur trading companies.  I sure hope you can help me with this one, I can go back but I Get stop by him each time I search for Port papers and Immigration records."

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

By now you've all seen that we come from a really big family, and as I continue in my monster data base project, it is absolutely mind boggling the number of people we are connected with.  The individual count of people in this data base as of this exact moment in time is 6131, with 2540 marriages.  That's a whole lotta people.  I get dizzier than I already am just trying to envision this tree as a wall-sized paper tree.

Speaking of paper trees, another project I'm working on is entering the data from a tree that was loaned to me by cousin Laurette that was researched by her mother Jeanette and recopied by Laurette's Aunt Lillian.  It's what they call a "fan chart".

This particular fan chart is a piece of paper 3 feet wide and two feet tall (for those of you who think Metric, that's 91.44 centimeters by 60.96 centimeters), with what looks like an almost fully spread old-fashioned-type hand-held fan, with a pointy-topped rectangle just below the center of this half-pie.

Within the pointy-topped rectangle are spaces for the premiere generation (first generation) and the deuxieme generation (second generation), then it moves up on to the fan, like rings on a tree, starting with a ring of four spaces for the third generation, followed by an eight-space ring for the fourth generation, all the way up to the tenth generation, which is the outer most ring, with spaces for 512 individuals.

Each space is numbered.  The largest number on it is 1023.  There are only 42 blank spots and these are all in the outer ring.  Even given that some of the couples contributed more than one child to this tree, that's still a LOT of people.

For every couple from the 2nd through the 8th generation is a notation for when and where married.  The only reason I can see why the 9th and 10th generations is missing this info is that simply wasn't room to write it.  I'm also guessing the married when/where info was left off the 1st generation to protect their privacy -- which is cool.

When eventually I get to putting my monster data base on the web site, I will only be adding info up to 1900 -- unless I get *specific* permission to include post-1900 info.  Why the 1900 cut-off date?  It's the standard in Canada, which is a bit stricter than in the US, but still--

See, I *personally* haven't a problem in the world with sharing most of the recent family info on my line with the rest of you, with a "this is me -- warts and all" kinda attitude. However my devil-may-care attitude is tempered by the wishes of close family members with young children.  I understand the restrictions and besides, I simply could not live with myself if harm came to the young ones because some sleezeball located them through the web site.

Other considerations are mothers' maiden names and birth dates of living people and the potential security problems that could be created by posting this information -- though realistically, if some scammer were really determined, a genealogy web site is probably the last place s/he'd look.  Still, though, I have family who value their privacy and the safety of their children, so I'm erring on the side of caution for the sake of those concerned about such things.

Thus the 1900 cut-off date.

With all this in mind, as each of you can, I would like to see trees for each of your lines.  Send what you feel comfortable with sending.  If you've already sent me one, send me a gentle reminder.  Or, better yet, I'll inventory what I have here on the hard drive and probably in July's COUSINS, I let you all know who I have what for.  I've been archiving them in separate .PAF files, each named according to the person I got them from.  And I have the Tanguay tree -- or will.

The Tanguay tree started as my family tree file -- Mom, Dad, Don, Jim, the aunts, uncles, etc.  When I found the missing piece of my Peppan puzzle -- by knocking out one of the Ps and changing the A to an I -- I had no idea I was going to find so much.  By the time I realized I should have done the Tanguay tree in a separate file, I was 3000 deep.  So, at 6131, I'm going to keep adding people to my Master file.  When I'm all done, I can use the really cool editing toys PAF 4.0 comes with to separate out mine and Daddy's maternal lines, save the results as TanguayP.paf, and use another fun toy in PAF 4.0 and do pages for the descendants of each of the 1st generation Québec couples.

I already have Jeanette's research, and would like to would also like to include it in my monster data base -- with her permission.

And as I type Jeannett's research into a PAF file named "Jeannette", I remind myself that -- if I remember correctly -- Jeannette did all this before the Internet was The Place to Do genealogy.  She wrote letters, went to libraries, searched microfiche, and dealt with the wretched handwritting in the older records.  She is a Genealogist of The Old School.  Rare and wonderful beings, they are, and becoming rarer as more and more of those nasty old hard to read, handwritten records get transcribed and put on easy to find web sites.  I also appreciate the tediousness of writing all this information down and keeping it legible.

New School genealogists find and file genealogy records with their computers, using programs let you type your info in once, and later lets you choose from an assortment of trees and reports, and all you have to do is click the mouse a couple times, then go make more coffee while your selection prints out.  Storage space needed for archives: without hard copy, about one shoebox full of floppies, and a handful of CDs.   ("Hard copy?!?"  <heavy sigh> "DoOd, that's what CDs're for.")

I fall in the middle.  I started Old School but have semi-converted to New School.  Once I figure out this yard sale digital camera, I'll snap a pic of my work space here.  <insert impish grin HERE>  but I was a pack rat long before genealogy gave me a good excuse.

Anyway.

I know a little about Old School genealogy.  A lot of it is writing.  Pre-computer, it just wasn't handy to pack along one's Remmington to the library . . . nor would it have been appreciated.  The alternative -- other than pumping roll upon roll of coins into the Xerox machine, hoping that *this* time the copy is legible -- was pencil and paper.  Trick to this is being able to read your own handwriting later.  I got more than my share of notes to myself with completely illegible squiggles where important words should be.

So, with all this said . . .

Jeannette -- I salute you and and I salute your sister-in-law Lillian.

Excellent job, Ladies!

NEWSY BITS

On May 29th, my brother Jim emailed me to say that his band, JUXTAPOSE, has completed the master recording for their second CD, "Cartoonland".  Three pre-mastered songs from this CD can now be heard at MP3.com, at:   http://www.mp3.com/artists/37/juxtapose.html

You can learn more about JUXTAPOSE at their web site http://www.juxtapose.org

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