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Cleveland with the Cousins

It might seem a little odd to write about a daytrip to Cleveland from back in March, when I still haven’t really written about our awesome trip to Aruba earlier this month, but I’ve been meaning to get this out there for a while now.

See, we rarely get to hang out with Aaron’s now-adult cousins outside of the standard family gatherings (Thanksgiving, Christmas, sometimes Easter, and sometimes Independence Day), so after literally YEARS of “we should really get together and hang out sometime” and one snow delay, we managed to spend a day together in Cleveland. The plan was to start out in Ohio City, hit the West Side Market, drive to Tremont and walk around, then wrap up with dinner in Asiatown.

And, despite the cold, that’s just what we did. Read on for details and photos…
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genealogy

Rekindled

Funny how all it takes is one little query to get my genealogy-itch going again.

I recently got an e-mail from a previously-unknown cousin on my Memaw’s side of the family — my second cousin once removed, actually — giving me a piece of the Mickler family puzzle I hadn’t known before. This bit of information (that my great-grandfather was murdered, and that my Granny was a widow) spurred a week-long flurry of genealogical research on my part, culminating with my splurging on a month of Ancestry.com access.

I need to beware of losing focus, though: I have a tendency to just go searching online willy-nilly, instead of looking for a particular event or answering a particular question about a person or family. That’s when I burn out quickly, instead of maintaining my interest.

Another genealogy cousin of mine once said, back when I was in college and just getting into genealogy on my own, that I would understand in time how people get into and out of doing genealogy, and how the interest can ebb and flow. I do understand now, completely, and I’m taking full advantage of the genealogy bug having bitten for the moment.