March 10, 11

 Good morning. We expect thunderstorms a bit later this afternoon. Evidently some really bad weather hit in Michigan just north of the Indiana-Michigan line. A tornado wiped out a large swath of the town. We did get the thunder and lightning but not the twisters. I heard the siren tests a bit ago.

I haven't read anything much in my feeds to comment on or link to. So I have instead concentrated on working on the genealogy. I am on Ancestry and it is pretty good although I do have a problem. I can't really compare the information on the various documents. When I first started in this project I relied somewhat on my memory of our close relatives. And I found my memory was somewhat hazy. I hadn't seen most of the aunts and uncles in as long as 50 or more years. One of my aunts (by marriage) and her children were at my brother's and Sister's in law 30th anniversary renewal of their marriage vows which was 20 years ago. I had to wipe out a whole branch of the family tree which was mistaken. I just found another mistake by actually writing out the census data on one ancestor and wondering why there was a discrepancy in his wife's age and in some of the children they supposedly had. When I went on to her documents I found the problem: two different women named Martha and whose maiden names disappeared in the records. Tomorrow I will rebuild that line but I am tired now.

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I am just now perking up a bit. The thundershowers did come as predicted along with hail which began about two hours after we went to sleep. It was hard enough to wake us up out of a sound sleep wondering what was trying to break our windows. Luckily nothing broke. I couldn't go back to sleep for a bit between the continuing pounding and the little Fur Despots demanding a midnight snack. I ignored both but still had a restless night. It is still cloudy and much cooler outside. I decided to take it easy and pulled out the chili I had in the freezer which is slowly defrosting on a very low setting on the stove. I did get a couple of pans cleaned up and ready to use tomorrow. I also got a lot of the family tree rebuilt. I still need to clean up a bit more.

But I think I will shift my focus a bit and start taking a look at the locations where my family members and ancestors lived over their histories. I have been curious about what was happening when and where. I do know several of the men fought in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII. I need to get a handle on their military history. And I noticed that the military history of my brothers, niece, and my own history wasn't as easy to find. I haven't gone back to find them yet.