Dogs and ancestors

Had the house more or less to myself yesterday. DH took MIL to the doctor this morning (a 6 hr. ordeal counting that he has to get up at 6 am) and then went to work on BIL's tractor this afternoon. I say more or less because we have two dogs - a 15-year-old rat terrier-type cross and a 3-month-old retriever-type cross. The old dog is a piece of cake . . . now. In her heyday she could be a real piece of work. The pup, on the other hand, is a handful when she's between naps. I never had a dog who liked to chew and eat stuff like her - random scraps of paper, cellophane, fuzz, toy stuffing, dog bed stuffing, the dog bed label, , used dryer sheets, the bathroom rug label, leaves, cat s--t (ewww - trying to break her of that REAL fast), chunks of old dry grass from the mower, chair legs, cedar chest legs, the wooden handle of a flag, horse hoof trimmings (yes, you heard me right - dogs LOVE horse hooves). At least she seems to be catching on to housebreaking OK.



I've been working on the genealogy stuff again tonight, to the exclusion of most everything else except seeing who got to the finals on America's Got Talent. Some of the main family names I'm working on are Lamb, Fisler, Inman, Heisler, Houlroyd, Richter, Cooper, Carmody, McChesney and Barton. The LDS search site has a lot more census info on it starting this year, with transcriptions of US censuses from 1850 to 1930, and actual images to look at for 1850, 1870, and 1900. Some birth and marriage records go back farther. And fortunately for me, most of the family were homebodies. I can confine my searches pretty much to NJ, PA, and NY. There are very few (considering how many there are total) that moved out of the tri-state area. I have a few notebooks that I'm putting my copies of records into, but I think I'll need more, or at least bigger for the Fislers. Note to self - buy some dividers for the different branches so I don't have to flip through to find the descendant printouts I've been following.

Another late (for me) night - 11:25. Still have to give old dog her pill so she doesn't pee in her sleep.