If you are not interested in my time or the genealogy I found, just delete. Please, don't be an old baracuda and write me a nasty personal e-mail as has been done in the past. Again this past Christmas, I was able to spend time with my mom and all my brothers and sister as well as some of the grandkids, nieces, and nephews. Family get togethers are very special times in our lives. As I get older, I want to see my mom as often as possible while we are still blessed with her presence. This year I didn't have to hurry to come back to work. I stayed part time at my mom's and part time with my son and his family. Really had a lot of good visiting. It was much better than in the past when we only had two days. I had a little bit of time to go to the new museum at Ardmore. It's one of the best I've ever seen, and they are constantly adding to it. It opened about a year after I moved away from there. Then, I also got to spend some time in their new library. They are still in the process of installing computers. Some are already in use, but looks like about a dozen more to be installed. I have been trying for some time to get the names of the children of John Milt and Julie Adkins Vance. They were both born in Kentucky and married in Kentucky - I'm not sure if in Morgan, Magoffin, or Johnson County. John Milt was my grandfather Jeremiah "Jerry Marr" Caudle's best friend. He was a witness at my grandparents' wedding. John Milt's wife Julie was a sister to my grandfather's first wife Victoria Adkins who died in child birth with their first child. The Adkins families, John Milt Vance family, and my grandad were on the 1905/1906 train from Kentucky to Oklahoma or Indian Territory where my grandad met my grandmother Dora Belle Patrick from White Oak in Kentucky. Anyhow, while at the library, I decided to look at the 1920 census of the Ardmore area, and did find John Milt and his family. Part of the census was very hard to read, so some of the names may be wrong. I'll try to find some of the living family to check them out. In 1920, John M. Vance, a farmer, was 42 years old. He and his parents were born in Kentucky. Julia (Adkins) was 35, and she and her parents were born in Kentucky. All the children were born near Ardmore, Oklahoma. Edgar, 12 years old Ermin, 11 years old Bessie, 9 years old Minnie (not sure if name is correct) 8 years old Jessel (not sure if name is correct) 6 years old Raman (not sure if name is correct and could not read the age, looked like 2 2/12) Pearl, (age looked to be the same as Raman, so possible twins) So I got to be with my present family, and found out more about my past family. Merry Christmas to me. Bud Caudle