New hints on Hensley family

Getting a lot of new, good hints from Ancestry.com. Just linked my maternal grandmother's Hensley family from Tennessee, back through North Carolina, Virginia, and England. Interesting to see how some ancestors lived not far from where I am now, but the family moved on, and eventually returned, sometimes two or three generations later.

Family Royalty

Occasionally in doing family ancestry work, an interesting line appears. One such is my wife's Miller line. I now have her Miller's connected back to this interesting gentleman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Tudor

Sifting through lives

This weekend my two brothers and I, and our three wives spent three days at my mother's house, clearing it out so it can be sold. It turns out my mother seems to have kept a great deal of the things that came into her life. I now have at my home many boxes of family photos, recipes, newspaper clippings, letters, cards, funeral documents and so forth. A brief look through some of this indicates much of it is things I have never before seen.

So, over the next weeks and months, I will be spending time examining, scanning, and filing away these small scraps of a long life.