Here are my answers! > 1) Where are you today, actually, geographically? Upstate New York, north of Ithaca. I grew up in Louisiana but have lived here for six years, where I teach high school science in a little village. > 2) What are your DEWHURST lines? I have one, and she's a mystery -- I'm hoping someone has found her and will be able to help me. Margaret Dewhurst, b. ca. 1675, m. November 2, 1692 in Elizabeth, Essex Co., NJ to Thomas Clarke, son of William Clarke of Scotland. I'd love to find out where Margaret was born and what her parents' names are. > 3) How long have you been researching? I've been a genealogist for about 20 years. I only found my Dewhurst connection about eight years ago. > 4) How did you get interested in family history? My grandmother always used to tell me about her family -- hearing all of those old names gave me the bug! > 5) Where are you stuck? On the Dewhursts, I'm stuck at Margaret. I'm stuck a lot of other places on other lines, too... :-( > 6) Can you take your Dewhurst line "back to Adam" - show us! Boy, don't I wish! > 7) How can we best pass along our interest in family history to > forthcoming generations? I've got two sons, 10 and 7. I don't try to push the genealogy stuff on them, but I show them the old pictures, and share some of the stories I've heard (like the time my grandfather, who was an insurance salesman, accidentally drove away from the house of a client with a large dog which had climbed into his car through an open window. It was at night, and he was on a deserted country road, and he heard a noise in the back seat; he glanced in the rear-view mirror in time to see the dog sit up and peer over the seat. My grandfather almost died of cardiac arrest then and there.) > 8) Anyone willing to share some good interview questions or techniques to get our elders to tell all? Can't help here. My problem was getting my grandmother to _stop_ talking. > 9) What are your favorite DEWHURST research internet links? This one! > 10) Anyone know of books written on the DEWHURSTS? Nope, sorry. Looking forward to hearing from others on the list... Cheers, Gordon Bonnet <abonnet@clarityconnect.com>