> 1) Where are you today, actually, geographically? Earthquake California (yesterdays was 5.4. I never felt a thing). > 2) What are your Kirwin lines Mary KIRWAN born 10 Jan 1829 Ireland, married Edward DRUHAN in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 15 Aug 1923 Mayfield, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. > 3) How long have you been researching About 6 years but no serious researching on the KIRWAN line. > 4) How did you get interested in family history My mun-in-law sent me a copy of some pages that a relative gave her of work she had done on her Nova Scotia families, (MacDonald, MacKinnon, MacEachern, MacPherson, MacFarlane, Druhan, Carver, MacDonnell, Murphy), after she went to a reunion in Nova Scotia. > 5) Where are you stuck In Nova Scotia, Canada. > 6) Whaddaya think of the idea all Kirwin's are descended from Noah's > son, Japheth Say what? > 7) How can we best pass along our interest in family history to > forthcoming generations 1)Take them to the places where they lived and died, have them help you search for records and then put it all together in a book, with pictures of: their ancestors, the houses where they lived, gravestones, histories of the area, obits, maps, land records, census records, passenger lists, naturalization records, written oral histories of those you remember and what you remember about them, and written oral histories of those others remember and what they remember about them. There will be spots of information that will be missing from your completed books. Keep inviting them to help you find the missing info. Do books for living relatives - for example, do one for your mother and do one for your father, with all their ancestors. Your honor of your parents may inspire them to one day honor you.2) Volunteer at a Family History Center or Genealogical Society. Let them see you in action. (Children tend to be, and want to be,"just like us!") > 8) Anyone willing to share some good interview questions or techniques > to get our elders to tell all I found the best way is to get a census page with them on it (or their parents), then start asking them about the neighbors (the names on the census pages next to and all around their family on the same street). > 9) What are your favorite KIRWIN research internet links Haven't seen any > 10) Anyone know of books written on the Kirwins? Not totally. I have seen chapters on them in books on fiche in the Family History Center. Judith Manley <JudithM@sj.bigger.net>