Connie developed an interest in genealogy at the age of nine as she listened to her grandmother's stories of ancestors over cherished magnetic photo albums. Genealogy became more than mere names and dates that summer day, and she treasured each subsequent story and moment spent working on the family tree with "Granny" every summer thereafter.Now all grown up and a book editor, Connie squeezes in all the genealogy time she can but, frankly, admits that there would never be enough time to "finish," were such a thing even possible. She currently considers herself more family compiler than researcher, being blessed with other family members' interest in the subject and their willingness to share. (In the meantime, she's still working through Granny's plentiful, photocopied, handwritten "Family Record" sheets from the BC [Before Computer] era.

FAMILY NAMES: Malmsberry, Lora, Cattell, Cobb(s), Phillips, Hack, Mead, Ballengee, Thompson, Robbins, Smith, Brown, Wiley, Rookstool, Roller, Stanley, Brantingham, Santee, Troyer, Dreier, Schlabach.

STATES: Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts (Plymouth and Salem), and Tennessee.

COUNTRIES: England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Germany + Bavaria, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

RELIGIOUS/ETHNIC/PEOPLE GROUPS: Quaker, Amish, Appalachia, Founding Families, Mayflower

Connie developed an interest in genealogy at the age of nine as she listened to her grandmother's stories of ancestors over cherished magnetic photo albums. Genealogy became more than mere names and dates that summer day, and she treasured each subsequent story and moment spent working on the family tree with "Granny" every summer thereafter.Now all grown up and a book editor, Connie squeezes in all the genealogy time she can but, frankly, admits that there would never be enough time to "finish," were such a thing even possible. She currently considers herself more family compiler than researcher, being blessed with other family members' interest in the subject and their willingness to share. (In the meantime, she's still working through Granny's plentiful, photocopied, handwritten "Family Record" sheets from the BC [Before Computer] era.

FAMILY NAMES: Malmsberry, Lora, Cattell, Cobb(s), Phillips, Hack, Mead, Ballengee, Thompson, Robbins, Smith, Brown, Wiley, Rookstool, Roller, Stanley, Brantingham, Santee, Troyer, Dreier, Schlabach.

STATES: Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts (Plymouth and Salem), and Tennessee.

COUNTRIES: England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Germany + Bavaria, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

RELIGIOUS/ETHNIC/PEOPLE GROUPS: Quaker, Amish, Appalachia, Founding Families, Mayflower