Introduction Post

Hello,

I'm creating this blog now as a diary/journal for my genealogy research. It's much easier typing than writing and then losing hard copies, and this way it is more accessible to any relatives or other genealogists that want to look over some of the progression I've made to obtain certain information and I can explain some of my methods.

I started really searching for info a couple years ago and it really took off after it became more of a search for old photographs of relatives. But I have much more than just photos! I recently got way way way too into it all and started adding any families that were from Winneshiek county to my family tree program. So many different families are connected in odd ways, that it helps to know who went where regardless of their relation. Also, relatives' friends and neighbors' names often come up in genealogy related searches and it's good to know more about these people.

I also wanted to put this out there, because I was so tired of reading about other people doing genealogy on the internet who are researching the South or Northeast US families that are only of British, Irish, or German descent!