Family History Work

Over the past several weeks, I have had an incredible urge to work on my family's genealogy. In fact, Stefanie has also mentioned that she has felt the same promptings. Anyway, as I was perusing Findagrave.com (yes, it's a real website), I found a picture of my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother's graves in a cemetary in Lovelock, Nevada (I had already known they were buried there). Along with the picture, was an email to someone named "Tim". I felt like I needed to contact him so I emailed him. Come to find out we share the same Great-grandfather! I'm from the first marriage, and Tim is from the second marriage. How exciting--I found "kin". We have emailed A LOT over the past couple of weeks and I have learned things that I never even had a clue of! Hmmm....nothing like finding family skeletons within the first couple of generations of the good ol' family tree. Anywho, as Tim has shared a lot of family history regarding our great-grandfather, I have developed a strong desire to know more about my great-grandmother Lydia who seems to be "lost" from everything....so the digging commences!

And, here are a couple of old pictures I found in my belongings. I have very few pictures of my childhood.....

My dad, me, and My mom---New Year's Eve circa 1959

This is a picture of my dad, me and my Grandmother Ruth, Christmas Day 1968---her mother is Lydia, the family member I am trying to learn about and no one seems to know about This is exciting! Wish me luck as I seek to find my roots!

However, I do know that my line does work into Charles Dickens the author--he is a great, great, great uncle (or something like that)---And, I WILL figure it out!