Photograph from England

Recently Darrell Walker who is a cousin through Edmund Walker's son Clarence sent me this photo of the family of Edmund's sister Clarissa, her husband Alfred and other family members. I'm going to try to figure out who is who from the description--there are nine people in the photo and only seven named :) The photo was sent by Edmunds nephew and Godson, Edmund Hill who Edmund mentions in his journal. I'll add this along with the two others he sent to the photo page. I'll also add the key when I decide which person is which.

Finished!

I've been working on a history of Edmund Walker and Marie Antoinette Swallow for quite a while now with the research assistance of my sister-in-law, Kathy Walker. I think we're finally going to declare it finished! I'm sure it isn't perfect and may need corrections as people read and suggest, but for now it contains as much information as we've been able to pull out of journals, records of ocean crossings, trail accounts, wikis, etc. etc. It's long, but I hope many of his posterity read it; their story can give us all an appreciation of what our ancestors had to go through for our present day advantages.

Just click on the histories tab and you'll find it there along with some others.

To Continue or Not to Continue :)

Just after I got this blog together, it became possible on FamilyTree (the new FamilySearch) to attach photos, documents, etc. and make them available to other people researching, SO I began to wonder if I should keep working on the blog or just switch over entirely to FamilyTree. I talked to my brother, Mike, about it, who is serving a mission as support for the new program. His opinion was that it will be better for me to continue what I'm doing with the blog--upload the histories, pictures and documents here and then link them to FamilyTree. So that's what I'll do. One way or the other, they will be somewhere other than in my file drawers and on my computer and can be found by those looking for family information. If you know of relatives who are researching, share the blog address and feel free to post yourselves. It would be fun to get to know some cousins!

Launching From the Shore

I've been working on this blog for a while and have hesitated to launch it because there are still things I want to do--photos to find, histories to finish, dates to document. But I'm sure when Edmund and Nettie launched from the shores of England. there must have been preparations they wish they had made and tasks they would have finalized if there was time. But they didn't falter; they boarded and began a new life that would enable ours. So I'm launching the blog in hopes cousins will find their way to it, and that we will all learn and share and collaborate. Bon Voyage!