I just thought I would write a post about the surnames that I am researching. I’ve never done this and I figured that it might be a good idea! If you want folks to find you, maybe you should let them know who you are researching!

I’ll list these in order of appearance in my research. I don’t have information on all my different ancestors but I will list the ones I do know about. These are all in my direct line, i.e., parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc….

Forbes, Spangler, Gamble, Stevenson, Deacon, Miller, Rainwater, Beal, Freeman, Holder, Seeber, Buss, Brown, Jones, Sheridan, Bennett, Warchus, Seawright, Sartor, Howe, Britt, Johnson, Felton, Hughes, House, Speer, and Walrad.

Here are some of the names to go along with these surnames:

• George Charles Forbes
• David Franklin Spangler
• Ora Elizabeth Gamble
• Winnie Ida Stevenson
• Mary Ellen Deacon
• Abigail Mae Miller
• Mary Ann Rainwater
• Adelaide Eliza Beal
• Gennet Eudora Freeman
• Martha Holder
• Rachel Ann Seeber
• Charlotte Buss
• Elmina Catherine Brown
• Miranda Jones
• Lydia Sheridan
• Mary Bennett
• Philadelphia Warchus
• Jane Seawright
• Cinderilla Sartor
• Catherine Howe
• Ann Britt
• Margaret Johnson
• Rachel Felton
• Sarah Hughes
• Anna Barbara House
• Elizabeth Speer
• Maria Margaretha Walrad

I’ll start writing some posts soon about what I know about these folks and how they fit into my line. Who knows what may come of it all? If nothing else, it will get me looking afresh at what I have researched in the past!

Have a great day everyone.

Ken

I hope to get back to posting soon.

Have a great week everyone,

Ken

I’ll try to be back next Monday with some “Monday Musings”!

Thanks and have a great week,

Ken

This is a picture snapped just after entering the park. How appropriate that we would get our first picture with Daffy Duck! This is my crew, the ladies in my life. That’s my wife on the left and my two daughters on the right. Beautiful aren’t they?

This is a pretty cool picture. The guy playing Lex Luthor (I think that is who he is!) didn’t want to touch my daughters because they were soaking wet! We had just come off of the Aquaman ride, better know as Splashwater Falls and we were all soaked to the gills! When I started to take this picture, Cheetah Girl was not in there. She kind of sneaked in at the last minute. It made this an awesome picture though!

OK, you knew I had to have at least one of me in here. Yes, I chose this setting. We were just walking along and I told my wife that this was the perfect picture for me!

Of course, as you can tell, I need to join Terry Thornton and attempt to become unfat! I also learned that I look really old if I am not wearing my partial. Look at that toothless grin!

This is the last pic for this post. I don’t want to overwhelm anyone who’s connection is still on dial-up. It’s appropriate that I started this post with the women in my life and now I will close it with the women in my life!

Aren’t they just so lovely? This is actually another one of those pictures that I chose to have them pose for. I just thought it would look so cool to have them pose with me shooting from below and with the little sign with Bugs Bunny!

I think they would make some mighty fine guards and they definitely can handle all the risks associated with the job. After all, they have to put up with me everyday!

I’ll post some more pics later. I hope you enjoyed this little tour of our Six Flags visit.

Have a wonderful day!

I could begin with a list of excuses but I’m sure that is not needed. We all know that we have times in our life when there are some things that are more important than genealogy, blogging or research! In those times, we make the smart choice and learn to put hobbies to the side! So, enough said on that!

So, what’s happening in my world? Well, life is extremely different lately without my son around. I’m the only guy in the house and have to put up with three women everyday! That’s not a bad thing but there isn’t much time for wrestling, football, or other “manly” things. I’m looking forward to next month when I get to go see my son graduate from Marine Corps. boot camp.

On the genealogy side, there have been some interesting things. I’ve met a few new cousins on MySpace of all places! I recently made contact with some cousins on my dad’s side that I didn’t even know were still alive. Interestingly enough, one of them is a Civil War buff and can tell you just about anything about the Civil War! He had with him a printout of a Confederate troop in Arkansas that contained my 2nd-great-grandfather William C. Gamble! Quite interesting. I look forward to starting a line of conversations with him. His older brother told me many interesting things about my family that I never knew! This was all at a birthday party for a cousin’s husband and most of the folks there were from his job, not family! It just goes to show that you never know where you may find genealogy links!

I regret that I will miss another issue of the Carnival of Genealogy! I had grown to look forward to being able to write posts for the Carnival. I can think of many things to write but as today is the deadline, I will wait and try to research a post better.

So, let’s hope that we can get back into the swing of blogging soon! I’m not gone, I’m just livin’ life! Sometimes we need to step back from all our researching of history and make a little history ourselves!

Take care everyone!

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISTP)

Your personality type is reserved, methodical, spirited, and intense. Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men You are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving.

Not sure what all that means. I also did the other test and came up with this: INFJ

Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists — INFJs gravitate toward such a role — are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.

INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of ‘poetic justice’ is appealing to the INFJ.

“There’s something rotten in Denmark.” Accurately suspicious about others’ motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.

INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.

Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.

Functional Analysis:

Introverted iNtuition

Introverted intuitives, INFJs enjoy a greater clarity of perception of inner, unconscious processes than all but their INTJ cousins. Just as SP types commune with the object and “live in the here and now” of the physical world, INFJs readily grasp the hidden psychological stimuli behind the more observable dynamics of behavior and affect. Their amazing ability to deduce the inner workings of the mind, will and emotions of others gives INFJs their reputation as prophets and seers. Unlike the confining, routinizing nature of introverted sensing, introverted intuition frees this type to act insightfully and spontaneously as unique solutions arise on an event by event basis.

Extraverted Feeling

Extraverted feeling, the auxiliary deciding function, expresses a range of emotion and opinions of, for and about people. INFJs, like many other FJ types, find themselves caught between the desire to express their wealth of feelings and moral conclusions about the actions and attitudes of others, and the awareness of the consequences of unbridled candor. Some vent the attending emotions in private, to trusted allies. Such confidants are chosen with care, for INFJs are well aware of the treachery that can reside in the hearts of mortals. This particular combination of introverted intuition and extraverted feeling provides INFJs with the raw material from which perceptive counselors are shaped.
Introverted Thinking

The INFJ’s thinking is introverted, turned toward the subject. Perhaps it is when the INFJ’s thinking function is operative that he is most aloof. A comrade might surmise that such detachment signals a disillusionment, that she has also been found lacking by the sardonic eye of this one who plumbs the depths of the human spirit. Experience suggests that such distancing is merely an indication that the seer is hard at work and focusing energy into this less efficient tertiary function.

Extraverted Sensing

INFJs are twice blessed with clarity of vision, both internal and external. Just as they possess inner vision which is drawn to the forms of the unconscious, they also have external sensing perception which readily takes hold of worldly objects. Sensing, however, is the weakest of the INFJ’s arsenal and the most vulnerable. INFJs, like their fellow intuitives, may be so absorbed in intuitive perceiving that they become oblivious to physical reality. The INFJ under stress may fall prey to various forms of immediate gratification. Awareness of extraverted sensing is probably the source of the “SP wannabe” side of INFJs. Many yearn to live spontaneously; it’s not uncommon for INFJ actors to take on an SP (often ESTP) role.

Famous INFJs:

Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet

U.S. Presidents:
Martin Van Buren
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanny Crosby, (blind) hymnist
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons)
Shirley Temple Black, child actor, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain (Sweet Charity, …)
Piers Anthony, author (“Xanth” series)
Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Billy Crystal
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jamie Foxx
Sela Ward
Mark Harmon
Gary Dourdan
Marg Helgaberger
Evangeline Lilly
Tori May

Well, I have to agree with the fact that I am a strange mixture of being introverted and shy, as well as being extroverted or outgoing. The simple truth is that I am very shy til I get to know someone and then it’s hard to get me to shut up sometimes. I am also one who gets lost in his work and can tune everything else out!

That’s a pretty good list to be involved with!

Thanks for the post Randy!

I have had a lot of success in my 7 years of research, and I owe it all to a lot of great people and family. However, I can’t help but wonder how much more successful I would be if it weren’t for my stumbling block. You see, of all things to fail in, I fall short when it comes to being bold and taking initiative. I have often had problems with being confident and being able to boldly go to someone and ask them things I know they know. Don’t get me wrong, once I get to know someone I am wide open to them. It’s getting to know them that is hard.

I’ve never been one to rush in to relationships. I’ve always been a little shy when it comes to new people. Heck, I work at a job with two cousins who I don’t even hardly talk to because I didn’t grow up around them and I really don’t know how to take the leap. I know it is as simple as going to them and starting a conversation but what do I talk about. Plus, they don’t seem to be too eager to talk to me either.

It makes me wonder what my research would be like if it were not for the Internet. On-line I don’t have to worry about shyness. I can talk to complete strangers without any hesitation. I can write my feelings on my blog. I can show forth a side of me that some folks would never know. I’ve had plenty of help from others on-line. Some folks don’t even realize they have helped me but they have.

So, I have put forth one of my stumbling blocks! I know that there are many others who have also come to the same realization. Do you know what your stumbling block is? What have you done to overcome it? I’ll try to keep you updated about my success in overcoming mine.

I thought it would be best to move it now instead of later!

Just a heads up for those who may have noticed the new URL on the blog!

Have a great day!