Confusion and Organization

I realize that my posts have probably become more and more confusing.  It's pretty confusing to me, and I have a printed and on-line family tree to refer to, which I do constantly!  Instead of running back and forth to my laundry room, where the "tree" has been hanging, I've just set up a card table next to my computer desk and I have the "tree" lying there.  Hopefully later today, I will try to make things less confusing for all of my blog readers out there! 

By the way, I don't know who you are!  I've had over 180 views so far.  I know some are my immediate family, and I assume Marnie and her father.  But unless these few people are obsessively reading me over and over again, there must be a few more of you!  If you're reading this please send me an email or facebook message! 

One very amusing thing that I've become aware of has come from reading the old archived newspapers of the midwest in the early part of the 20th century.  There are entire, long articles of local gossip.  For example, things like "Mrs. Mary Jones and her daughter are spending the next four days visiting her mother in law, Mrs. Tammy Jones in Sioux Falls."  There are pages and pages of this stuff!  This is how I have so easily pieced together the American branch of the family.  Birthday parties, family reunions, and the recounting of who attended a funeral allow me to match names of "new" family members with the names I already have.  I can't imagine these kinds of items being published in the papers today.  Of course, we publish all of this gossip on our own on facebook!