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I've just volunteered, and been accepted, for another Operation Smile medical mission - this time to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I'll be going soon. Bolivia you ask? Yes, it's not on the regular tourist route, and there are security concerns, but I think it will be quite an experience. The mission hopes to complete over 100 cleft lip and cleft palate repairs during the time we're there doing surgeries. I'll be gone almost two weeks by the time air travel is added. It will be 24 to 36 hours duration for the flights from Honolulu. That's the part I'm not looking forward to.
In the meantime I've just received my new edition of Family Tree Maker 2011 for my genealogy database on my computer. I've installed it and am adding to my family tree - pictures today... The only difference I've noted so far is that it seems to be working slowly. Maybe it's my computer. I've been working on the Squier, Hague, and Akin lines lately.
Showing posts with label Family Tree Maker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Tree Maker. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Greeting the New Year
2010 is here and I am back at home after a month away. I was visiting my daughter and famiy in Arizona for three weeks, south of Tucson, and my nephews in Las Vegas for a week. Christmas and New Year's passed and shortly after I returned to Honolulu the Haiti Earthquake happened. The tradgedy sparked a inquiry from Operation Smile to me to see if I could rush to Haiti to work on the USNS Hospital Ship Comfort. I was asked because I'm an operating room nurse that has recently worked on a surgical mission on the Comfort (offshore Nicaragua last July). As it turned out the plans for Operation Smile shifted gears from doing life saving surgeries on the ship, to sending a small team in to do surgeries on land. Perhaps more assistance will be needed down the line. I've been riveted to the news programs about the situation in Haiti, and now with rescue and recovery teams leaving, I hope that the survivors will treated and sustained.
As far as genealogy goes, I have begun getting clients through Ancestry.com for conducting research. But of real enjoyment was talking to a cousin on my Joshua Wallace side and catching up with the family. It is so nice to have a not too distant cousin who enjoys doing genealogy and is interested in sharing information. I have Family Tree Maker and was going to print out an Outline Descendant Tree for her, but since I haven't used the 2010 version much, I had to "re-find" where this version has hidden that chart (it's under "Relationship Charts" on the Publish Tab). Then I figured I'd print off a few "Individual Reports", but discovered that these reports have headers that take up a lot of space, and I would have to use too many pages to print them out. So I copied the Person's Notes and pasted them to a Word document which seemed to be able to condense the information into far fewer pages than if I'd used Family Tree Maker (FTM) 2010. I feel like I am missing many of the FTM 2010 options, and I've signed on to a blog or two about using FTM 2010. Now I need time to get back genealogy!
In the meantime I have been busy getting quartzite natural stone squares laid in my small patio area, and also tracking down a mouse (a big one) that seems to like the powdered dehydration salts in foil packets that I brought back from Bangkok when I left the hospital there last May.
I'm looking forward to the visit of my Welsh "Rees" family cousins, Jan and Russ, coming this March and am really happy that I'll be able to show them around Hawaii. I originally met this line of my Rees-Pearce family through the internet about ten years ago and since then we've had visits back and forth. Several of the family are interested in the family history and of our common ancestors, Elias & Jennet Rees, of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.
Coming up, I hope to catch up with some of the genealogy blogs I subscribe to. I feel kind of cut off from the genealogy world when I don't read them. Thanks to all that made comments on my Pearce Genealogy Photo Book. I have plans to make other similar books.
As far as genealogy goes, I have begun getting clients through Ancestry.com for conducting research. But of real enjoyment was talking to a cousin on my Joshua Wallace side and catching up with the family. It is so nice to have a not too distant cousin who enjoys doing genealogy and is interested in sharing information. I have Family Tree Maker and was going to print out an Outline Descendant Tree for her, but since I haven't used the 2010 version much, I had to "re-find" where this version has hidden that chart (it's under "Relationship Charts" on the Publish Tab). Then I figured I'd print off a few "Individual Reports", but discovered that these reports have headers that take up a lot of space, and I would have to use too many pages to print them out. So I copied the Person's Notes and pasted them to a Word document which seemed to be able to condense the information into far fewer pages than if I'd used Family Tree Maker (FTM) 2010. I feel like I am missing many of the FTM 2010 options, and I've signed on to a blog or two about using FTM 2010. Now I need time to get back genealogy!
In the meantime I have been busy getting quartzite natural stone squares laid in my small patio area, and also tracking down a mouse (a big one) that seems to like the powdered dehydration salts in foil packets that I brought back from Bangkok when I left the hospital there last May.
I'm looking forward to the visit of my Welsh "Rees" family cousins, Jan and Russ, coming this March and am really happy that I'll be able to show them around Hawaii. I originally met this line of my Rees-Pearce family through the internet about ten years ago and since then we've had visits back and forth. Several of the family are interested in the family history and of our common ancestors, Elias & Jennet Rees, of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.
Coming up, I hope to catch up with some of the genealogy blogs I subscribe to. I feel kind of cut off from the genealogy world when I don't read them. Thanks to all that made comments on my Pearce Genealogy Photo Book. I have plans to make other similar books.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
July 1, 2007
I've been happily tracking down new family history and websites on the Akin line, thanks to my contact with cousin Terry Akin
through cousin Larry Akin. Terry has carefully put much Akin information on the website www.findagrave.com. It is a free website where people can enter information about people and which cemetery they are buried in. Since Terry is my 3rd cousin once removed we share many relations that lived in Chautauqua Co., New York near Jamestown in the southwest corner of the state. I've spent many days, over three different years, driving around the area and researching my ancestors in that county, which also includes the Stevens, and the Blandings up in the Silver Creek area. Terry is my closest Akin relation that is doing genealogy and we are very happy to have found each other. Anyway, I was able to send him the tombstones photographs that I took at the Stillwater Cemetery and the Busti Cemetery. The oldest tombstone pictures are of Joseph Akin (1761 - 1847) (pictured) and wife Elsey Holloway (1760-1833) who were among the very first settlers in the Jamestown area. The photo on t
he right is of the original Akin homestead area at the Stillwater, Kiantone Twp, Chautauqua County, NY. Joseph traveled from near Albany along trails to purchase land from the Holland Land Co. near Erie. Then he probably sailed down the coast of Lake Erie to Westfield area and then followed Indian or trapper trails back eastward to claim his land in 1807, on the east end of Lake Chautauqua. He tried to establish a village called "Akinville" - but wanted to lease the lots instead of sell them fee simple. So eventually Jamestown became established and more popular. But Joseph had the first house in the township.
My great-great grandfather, David Akin moved west from Chautauqua County New York, to Wisconsin to teach, but became ill with tuberculosis. Terry's great-great grandfather, John Howard Akin, Jr. asked hi
s younger 25 yr old brother, David, to come back to New York and stay with him and sit in the sun in his apple orchard, so he could get well. David did return to his brother's farm and he was identified as staying with him in the 1860 census. Luckily for me, David did recover, and went back to Wisconsin to marry Sarah Minerva Ells. Together David & Minerva and their Squier cousins then moved west on to new land in Goodhue County, Minnesota, to farm and establish the town of Skyberg. David Akin had dairy cows and built 
a school house on his property for the community. Good thing too, as he had 12 children. On the left is a picture of apple blossoms I took around Busti near John Howard Akin, Jr's land. The lower left picture is David & Minerva Akins in Minnesota about 1927. The picture on the right is David's brother, John Howard Akin, Jr. in New York in earlier years.
It's really fascinating history around there. Guess what Westfield, NY is famous for??? Two things - Welchs Grape Juice and the place where President Lincoln got off a train and a little girl said he'd look better with a beard -- and the rest was history.
I finally had to stop doing the fun things and settle down to getting my stuff together for my big trip to the Mainland. I courageously and cautiously approached my old Vaio laptop computer - which was such a faithful friend on my two-year Vagabond roots-finding journey - and attempted to start it. I bought it in 2000. After a few coughs, it started right up when plugged in. I don't think the batteries are any good anymore. Anyway the next challenge was to find the external CD player that connects to the laptop and see if I could download the latest version of my Family Tree Maker program. Amazingly it worked. The next challenge was to move my present 432 megabyte Family Tree file onto a flash drive, from my PC, and that went surprisingly well. Then with that flash drive stuck into the Vaio laptop I hoped beyond hope it would work, so I could transfer the family file to the laptop. But no, the laptop couldn't find the driver for the flash drive - of course. The Vaio laptop has Windows 98 still on it and the modem no longer works, but if I find the CD that came with my other the little flash drive and load the driver, it would work.... But the little flash drive is only 128 megabytes, so it wouldn't work. Anyway, I decided to burn the family file from my PC to a CD and copy it to the laptop. This worked!!! But then the copied file in the laptop is a read-only, so I had to re-copy it in the laptop and rename the file in order to be able to edit it. At last all systems are go, and I can pack up the laptop in hopes it will work when I attend the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Indiana in August.
Now I have to collect all the stuff I'll need for my iPod and iPod microphone, for my Sony VideoCamera, my Sony digital still camera, and who knows what other crazy gadgets I must have. The worst thing is that I have to carry it all onto the airplane. So let's see: Laptop computer, two cameras, iPod, cell phone, all the cords for recharging the items, food, ear plugs, empty water bottle to fill up after security, a book, chapstick, medications - what else needs to be in the carry on? I'll be flying the ATA red-eye, an all-night delight from Hawaii to Las Vegas, then on to Tucson.... Oh yes, I need to carry-on my noise canceling headphones. Of course I'll have to remember to print out my e-ticket boarding passes before I leave.
I don't know if I'll be able to add to this blog while I'm gone, but maybe I'll be able to use my daughter's computer to do it. So until then, I'll say aloha. Don't forget to add comments to any of the pages.
through cousin Larry Akin. Terry has carefully put much Akin information on the website www.findagrave.com. It is a free website where people can enter information about people and which cemetery they are buried in. Since Terry is my 3rd cousin once removed we share many relations that lived in Chautauqua Co., New York near Jamestown in the southwest corner of the state. I've spent many days, over three different years, driving around the area and researching my ancestors in that county, which also includes the Stevens, and the Blandings up in the Silver Creek area. Terry is my closest Akin relation that is doing genealogy and we are very happy to have found each other. Anyway, I was able to send him the tombstones photographs that I took at the Stillwater Cemetery and the Busti Cemetery. The oldest tombstone pictures are of Joseph Akin (1761 - 1847) (pictured) and wife Elsey Holloway (1760-1833) who were among the very first settlers in the Jamestown area. The photo on t
he right is of the original Akin homestead area at the Stillwater, Kiantone Twp, Chautauqua County, NY. Joseph traveled from near Albany along trails to purchase land from the Holland Land Co. near Erie. Then he probably sailed down the coast of Lake Erie to Westfield area and then followed Indian or trapper trails back eastward to claim his land in 1807, on the east end of Lake Chautauqua. He tried to establish a village called "Akinville" - but wanted to lease the lots instead of sell them fee simple. So eventually Jamestown became established and more popular. But Joseph had the first house in the township.
My great-great grandfather, David Akin moved west from Chautauqua County New York, to Wisconsin to teach, but became ill with tuberculosis. Terry's great-great grandfather, John Howard Akin, Jr. asked hi
s younger 25 yr old brother, David, to come back to New York and stay with him and sit in the sun in his apple orchard, so he could get well. David did return to his brother's farm and he was identified as staying with him in the 1860 census. Luckily for me, David did recover, and went back to Wisconsin to marry Sarah Minerva Ells. Together David & Minerva and their Squier cousins then moved west on to new land in Goodhue County, Minnesota, to farm and establish the town of Skyberg. David Akin had dairy cows and built 
a school house on his property for the community. Good thing too, as he had 12 children. On the left is a picture of apple blossoms I took around Busti near John Howard Akin, Jr's land. The lower left picture is David & Minerva Akins in Minnesota about 1927. The picture on the right is David's brother, John Howard Akin, Jr. in New York in earlier years.It's really fascinating history around there. Guess what Westfield, NY is famous for??? Two things - Welchs Grape Juice and the place where President Lincoln got off a train and a little girl said he'd look better with a beard -- and the rest was history.
I finally had to stop doing the fun things and settle down to getting my stuff together for my big trip to the Mainland. I courageously and cautiously approached my old Vaio laptop computer - which was such a faithful friend on my two-year Vagabond roots-finding journey - and attempted to start it. I bought it in 2000. After a few coughs, it started right up when plugged in. I don't think the batteries are any good anymore. Anyway the next challenge was to find the external CD player that connects to the laptop and see if I could download the latest version of my Family Tree Maker program. Amazingly it worked. The next challenge was to move my present 432 megabyte Family Tree file onto a flash drive, from my PC, and that went surprisingly well. Then with that flash drive stuck into the Vaio laptop I hoped beyond hope it would work, so I could transfer the family file to the laptop. But no, the laptop couldn't find the driver for the flash drive - of course. The Vaio laptop has Windows 98 still on it and the modem no longer works, but if I find the CD that came with my other the little flash drive and load the driver, it would work.... But the little flash drive is only 128 megabytes, so it wouldn't work. Anyway, I decided to burn the family file from my PC to a CD and copy it to the laptop. This worked!!! But then the copied file in the laptop is a read-only, so I had to re-copy it in the laptop and rename the file in order to be able to edit it. At last all systems are go, and I can pack up the laptop in hopes it will work when I attend the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Indiana in August.
Now I have to collect all the stuff I'll need for my iPod and iPod microphone, for my Sony VideoCamera, my Sony digital still camera, and who knows what other crazy gadgets I must have. The worst thing is that I have to carry it all onto the airplane. So let's see: Laptop computer, two cameras, iPod, cell phone, all the cords for recharging the items, food, ear plugs, empty water bottle to fill up after security, a book, chapstick, medications - what else needs to be in the carry on? I'll be flying the ATA red-eye, an all-night delight from Hawaii to Las Vegas, then on to Tucson.... Oh yes, I need to carry-on my noise canceling headphones. Of course I'll have to remember to print out my e-ticket boarding passes before I leave.
I don't know if I'll be able to add to this blog while I'm gone, but maybe I'll be able to use my daughter's computer to do it. So until then, I'll say aloha. Don't forget to add comments to any of the pages.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
June 14, 2007
It's been an extraordinary couple weeks, and eventful last few days. First, I must mention about volunteering for the television series "Extreme Makeover - Home Edition." The season premier, which will air Sunday
Sept 23rd, 2007, was filmed yesterday in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kalihi. A very deserving woman and her family received a gorgeous new house and a children's learning center (Keiki o ka Aina). Work to build the house began a week ago. On Sunday I heard on TV news that they really needed more volunteers to help because they were behind due to the daily r
ain. So I went to Pier 38 to volunteer and board the shuttle bus to Kalihi Valley. Well, there were enough volunteers for Monday, so I signed up for Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday I helped set up the kitchen and living room, and tried to keep the dust to a minimum on
the floors. On Wednesday I reported back to Pier 38 for the shuttle at 7:30am and stayed at the house until 5pm. After 3,000 volunteers and sponsors, the 2-story house went up. It was very exciting to see the television cast, crew and all the designers, etc. at work. I was attached to "The Maids" a local cleaning company, and went to work on detail cleaning of the kitchen. After that people were being released. Since I wanted to stay inside working until "the reveal" when the family got to see the house, I kept finding work to do. Besides it was raining outside and very muddy. So while the crowds were practicing "Move That Bus" and cheering, I quietly cleaned the kitchen, then the stairs, and the upstairs hallway on my hands and knees. No one kicked th
is hard-working lady out of the house, and eventually I was about the only one who was not a part of the cast left. By then the cast was calling me in to one room or another to help tidy up here and there. Believe me the bedrooms for the three children, and the n
ursery were amazing - as was the master bedroom / suite... which included an outdoor jacuzzi in a private garden with waterfall. Finally when the rain had stopped and it was about time for the family to drive up in the limousine, I went out to wait with the crowd. It was a thrilling and heart-warming moment to see the reaction of this humble family when they saw their new home as the busses blocking their view were pulled away. I'm very happy for the experience, but I had no idea I'd bruised and scraped my knees so badly. Well, it was for a good cause.
In the midst of this I was busy submitting and resubmitting a video I made at the Hawaiian Plantation Village Genealogy Workshop June 2nd. I took a couple all-day efforts in editing it, adding music and narration before it looked OK. Then I found out my knowledge on the "output" phase is severely lacking. I didn't -- and
still don't-- know the best file type to output the video in for the internet. The first time I uploaded it up as an e-mail file. Much to my surprise it became a "featured" video on www.rootstelevision.com within one day. When I saw the poor quality and pixelation, I quickly went back to my original and edited out 30 seconds to get it down to 5 min 33 seconds. Then I had to find a output format so it would be as close to 100 MB without going over. I finally stumbled on something called "H.264" which turns out to be an MP4 file. At any rate, it compressed the video to 45.8 MB and Sam at Rootstelevision was able to switch out the old video for the new better version. It's called "Genealogy in Hawaii" and is in the "New & Featured" category at the website. Rootstelevision.com is an excellent genealogy resource, both informative and entertaining.
Also this week, all this my paperwork arrived to fill out for my visa applications to China and Cambodia. I put those in the mail at the post office today to PVS International. They handled my visa requirements last year when I went to Mongolia and Russia. I hope I get them back with my passport before I have to travel! In addition the "health form" arrived to fill out for my Elderhostle Intergenerational Program to S.W. Utah in July with my grandkids, which needed to be filled out and mailed. Lots of important paperwork, don't want to be disorganized!
I've been getting various immunizations and tests, etc. before my trip to China, Tibet and Cambodia this September. Unfortunately I missed the second in the Japanese Encephalitis innoculation series yesterday, and will have to get it tomorrow. I've got some "Diamox" pills for the high altitude (12,000 ft) for Lahsa, Tibet. I hope I don't get altitude sickness. If I were still living in mile-high Denver, it wouldn't be such a transition to go to those Tibetian altitudes.
Last Saturday our monthly Honolulu Genealogy Society meeting was held and I made a presentation on the "Family Tree Maker" software, while Richard Souther presenter "The Master Genealogist" software. With a laptop projector and many members with their own laptop computers, we had a very good and productive meeting. About thirty people were there. Afterwards many of us went to the Tree Tops Restaurant at the end of Manoa Valley again for lunch.
Tuesday, Mark Bennett, our Hawaii State Attorney General, spoke to us at the East Oahu Breakfast Club meeting in Hawaii Kai. I enjoyed talking to him, as I'd seen him often at various state hearings during the legislative session at the Capitol... including his own re-confirmation hearing.
And all this while I've been eager - chomping at the bit - to get to the packet of papers that arrived this week in the mail from the Lilly Library at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The packet is correspondence in the Grace Marks collection in the Manuscripts Department. It is all about the Thornburg(h) famil
y who, it's said, came to the Barbados then to Virginia, then Kentucky and in 1811 came finally to Indiana. There is also information on the Harbisons, and they are quite confused as to who Rachel Harbison's father was. Rachel married Amos Thornburg. I have visited Perrysville, KY and Salem, Indiana and know the areas of which the letters refer. It's been very difficult not to push everything else aside and delve into the papers, but with all that I've described, above, I just couldn't. Maybe if I don't have anyone log on to my genealogy support session at Family History Live Online, Friday, I'll be able to devote some time to reading and comparing the information. Amos Thornburgh and Rachel (Harbison) Thornburgh were my 3rd great grandparents on my father's side. I have a photo of their son, Richard Hope Thornburg. The Hope name came from a family friend or relation in Kentucky, and probably before that. So much to do...so little time.
Sept 23rd, 2007, was filmed yesterday in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kalihi. A very deserving woman and her family received a gorgeous new house and a children's learning center (Keiki o ka Aina). Work to build the house began a week ago. On Sunday I heard on TV news that they really needed more volunteers to help because they were behind due to the daily r
ain. So I went to Pier 38 to volunteer and board the shuttle bus to Kalihi Valley. Well, there were enough volunteers for Monday, so I signed up for Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday I helped set up the kitchen and living room, and tried to keep the dust to a minimum on
the floors. On Wednesday I reported back to Pier 38 for the shuttle at 7:30am and stayed at the house until 5pm. After 3,000 volunteers and sponsors, the 2-story house went up. It was very exciting to see the television cast, crew and all the designers, etc. at work. I was attached to "The Maids" a local cleaning company, and went to work on detail cleaning of the kitchen. After that people were being released. Since I wanted to stay inside working until "the reveal" when the family got to see the house, I kept finding work to do. Besides it was raining outside and very muddy. So while the crowds were practicing "Move That Bus" and cheering, I quietly cleaned the kitchen, then the stairs, and the upstairs hallway on my hands and knees. No one kicked th
is hard-working lady out of the house, and eventually I was about the only one who was not a part of the cast left. By then the cast was calling me in to one room or another to help tidy up here and there. Believe me the bedrooms for the three children, and the n
ursery were amazing - as was the master bedroom / suite... which included an outdoor jacuzzi in a private garden with waterfall. Finally when the rain had stopped and it was about time for the family to drive up in the limousine, I went out to wait with the crowd. It was a thrilling and heart-warming moment to see the reaction of this humble family when they saw their new home as the busses blocking their view were pulled away. I'm very happy for the experience, but I had no idea I'd bruised and scraped my knees so badly. Well, it was for a good cause.In the midst of this I was busy submitting and resubmitting a video I made at the Hawaiian Plantation Village Genealogy Workshop June 2nd. I took a couple all-day efforts in editing it, adding music and narration before it looked OK. Then I found out my knowledge on the "output" phase is severely lacking. I didn't -- and
still don't-- know the best file type to output the video in for the internet. The first time I uploaded it up as an e-mail file. Much to my surprise it became a "featured" video on www.rootstelevision.com within one day. When I saw the poor quality and pixelation, I quickly went back to my original and edited out 30 seconds to get it down to 5 min 33 seconds. Then I had to find a output format so it would be as close to 100 MB without going over. I finally stumbled on something called "H.264" which turns out to be an MP4 file. At any rate, it compressed the video to 45.8 MB and Sam at Rootstelevision was able to switch out the old video for the new better version. It's called "Genealogy in Hawaii" and is in the "New & Featured" category at the website. Rootstelevision.com is an excellent genealogy resource, both informative and entertaining.Also this week, all this my paperwork arrived to fill out for my visa applications to China and Cambodia. I put those in the mail at the post office today to PVS International. They handled my visa requirements last year when I went to Mongolia and Russia. I hope I get them back with my passport before I have to travel! In addition the "health form" arrived to fill out for my Elderhostle Intergenerational Program to S.W. Utah in July with my grandkids, which needed to be filled out and mailed. Lots of important paperwork, don't want to be disorganized!
I've been getting various immunizations and tests, etc. before my trip to China, Tibet and Cambodia this September. Unfortunately I missed the second in the Japanese Encephalitis innoculation series yesterday, and will have to get it tomorrow. I've got some "Diamox" pills for the high altitude (12,000 ft) for Lahsa, Tibet. I hope I don't get altitude sickness. If I were still living in mile-high Denver, it wouldn't be such a transition to go to those Tibetian altitudes.
Last Saturday our monthly Honolulu Genealogy Society meeting was held and I made a presentation on the "Family Tree Maker" software, while Richard Souther presenter "The Master Genealogist" software. With a laptop projector and many members with their own laptop computers, we had a very good and productive meeting. About thirty people were there. Afterwards many of us went to the Tree Tops Restaurant at the end of Manoa Valley again for lunch.
Tuesday, Mark Bennett, our Hawaii State Attorney General, spoke to us at the East Oahu Breakfast Club meeting in Hawaii Kai. I enjoyed talking to him, as I'd seen him often at various state hearings during the legislative session at the Capitol... including his own re-confirmation hearing.
And all this while I've been eager - chomping at the bit - to get to the packet of papers that arrived this week in the mail from the Lilly Library at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The packet is correspondence in the Grace Marks collection in the Manuscripts Department. It is all about the Thornburg(h) famil
y who, it's said, came to the Barbados then to Virginia, then Kentucky and in 1811 came finally to Indiana. There is also information on the Harbisons, and they are quite confused as to who Rachel Harbison's father was. Rachel married Amos Thornburg. I have visited Perrysville, KY and Salem, Indiana and know the areas of which the letters refer. It's been very difficult not to push everything else aside and delve into the papers, but with all that I've described, above, I just couldn't. Maybe if I don't have anyone log on to my genealogy support session at Family History Live Online, Friday, I'll be able to devote some time to reading and comparing the information. Amos Thornburgh and Rachel (Harbison) Thornburgh were my 3rd great grandparents on my father's side. I have a photo of their son, Richard Hope Thornburg. The Hope name came from a family friend or relation in Kentucky, and probably before that. So much to do...so little time.
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