Tifini is now in Olympia. She called tonight and is having a good time. They stopped in Ellensburg for lunch, had dinner at Bud's (right on the water) and she has her own hotel room. But from the call it sounds like she's tired from the drive.
Mom's Relief Society had a progressive dinner tonight. I don't remember exactly which houses they went to, but they had salads, soups and desserts. Mom took an apple crisp (apple cobbler?) which was delicious. I grabbed a Woody's hamburger and chocolate peanut butter milkshake for dinner. Then I got a call from Aunt Kathleen. I think she wanted to talk to mom, but she wasn't home yet. So I talked with her for awhile about what progress I'd made on Ancestry.com. Well, we got to talking and then Sheri called. By this point, mom was home. I handed over the phone so mom could talk to Sheri and I called Aunt Kathleen back. We talked about the Fairbanks line for awhile and I remembered that we had the Fairbanks Family History book upstairs. (The really long one with the typed up histories and some pictures.) So I grabbed that and shared some stories with Aunt Kathleen.
One of the reasons I wanted to see the book was because there was a Canada Census that looked like it could be LeRoy Smith Fairbanks, Sr. But the birth year was off by a couple years. Well, I checked our history book, and turns out that he was in Canada! And while I was doing this, Aunt Kathleen was taking the Fairbanks line back as far as she could. She got to one from the 1600's. The line goes back further, I believe, but she stopped there. Why? Because this man was sealed to at least a dozen sets of parents (all with the same names, but different PIDs), and some of those sets of parents had 32 children listed. This is a merge nightmare (or dream if you're Kathleen). So that is my newest project. Research back to that point on Ancestry, then merge and merge and merge and... So with that lovely thought, I'm going to bed.
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