Evidence of DNA

Jess and I have been working on our Genetree.com page. It's a cool free website that you can organize your family tree in a neat visual way. We have been on a mission of finding pictures of ancestors on the web as well as correcting some information that has been passed down for sometime. Both she and I have been possessed with the genealogy bug you might say. Such as our much more prevalent and controversial Native American ancestry. I am still working on that one and I believe to finally resolve it I will need to have my mtDNA tested so we will know of which haplogroup we belong. Of course one of my sisters could also, as they contain the same mtDNA as well as our Mother. After looking at many pictures Jess and I believe that the boys in our family carry a very familiar look to that of our maternal side of the family. Click on the picture below and tell me if you think the tall boy looks like someone we know. This picture is of the Losee family, whose daughter (not pictured) married a Cox, whose daughter then married Orville Johnson, Gram's dad. I also think the little girls look like Dean's kids, even though I think he looks like John Blakely.



If anyone in the family wants to hook onto our Genetree.com page send me your email address at kimamarmar@hotmail.com.

Well the Halloween 2008 season has now come to a close and we are rapidly approaching Thanksgiving. I did however take awhile to get on the bandwagon, I put up the lights, headstones, and cobwebs two days before Halloween. I was also up at three in the morning the night before so the little kids would have something to wear the next day. Some years I buy the standard gig and other years I feel I must some how create something from nothing to be original. Oh, the joys of a mother's guilt. I also have not taken a picture of Indy in his giraffe costume (which I did buy), oh the joys of a Grandmother's guilt.

The kids also carved some really cute pumpkins, which I did not get pictures of. There's some more guilt for ya. Rissa spent almost two hours working on her multi-personality pumpkin, while Zaya's was a quick study. Izzy and Broc carved the two largest pumkins the night of Halloween after taking Indy trick-or-treating. They used the cool patterns and created little masterpieces. Lara and Shane brought their family over as well as Jeff's sister Cindy and her kids. We were a large marauding group of candy seekers. I guess what's next is a large marauding group of turkey seekers.