Are you familiar with the old saying “chasing rabbits“? Sometimes I use that expressions and people are so puzzled. But I’m going to stick with the title–and add a clip art picture.
I have not scanned a single piece of genealogical resource material for several days!! My tangent started so innocently: Add some Studebaker family information to my “tree” on Ancestry.com. An enormous number of individuals have the “Studebaker” surname but they had a “Frantz” mother or grandmother. Hour after hours, I documented “Studebaker” and then it was “Funderburg.” I entered my dear genealogy friend, Alvin K. Funderburg (1916-2014), to my Ancestry tree. Suddenly “Blickenstaff” was interwoven with Frantz, Studebaker, and Funderburg. Soon I had included my dear genealogy friend, Maxine Blickenstaff (1921-2013). They’re gone now but I fondly remember our correspondence. So many dear folks contributed to the book titled Frantz Families–Kith & Kin. (Check it out on the Internet.)
It’s addictive!! Get started documenting names on Ancestry. com and there seems no place to stop!! At the moment, I have 5,705 people documented in the Lorraine Frantz Ancestry.com “tree.” ~~ I’m writing this at 6 o’clock in the morning and I resolve to return to the “bigger” project of scanning and posting to the Digitized Library.