I actually am not doing what anyone would call genealogy..it is just using family tree maker 16, which is wonderful, to cull stuff quickly from ancestry.com. A genealogist would not be impressed at all..but family members might find out something they would not otherwise..and if enough are done, and someone (else) plots where they had children born on the way, it can give a very good idea of migration, and at some point I hope to be in touch with people in COunty Kerry and give them names of couples to see if there is a match. Easier now that county kerry is on line.

Also what I just figured out is how to use newspaper access through my library card..and get it into a word table or spreadsheet. I just give it a name of a family and a town. I mostly do Clermont, so I give it the name of Murphy and Clermont..get some obituaries, some basketball stars, some terrible accidents involving farm animals, etc.