In a message dated 12/23/2000 11:20:06 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > What a nice picture! Didn't know you folks were so "young"!!! How do you > get so much genealogy accomplished with children? > > Merry Christmas to all... > > Jan Lund > Jan, I have been doing genealogy since the age of 4 years old actively.  I learned to read so that I could read headstones at that age.  Previous to that I drove my parents nuts demanding to stop at every cemetery that we passed on the way to anywhere just to look at the old headstones.  When I learned of the LDS Family History Centers as a lad, I then would want to go there often to read microfilms.  As the years have passed, I have tempered my need to stop at every cemetery and go to the LDS Family History Centers often with the need to complete school work, make a living, and raise a family.   When on the road with my company, I still stop by cemeteries. I still read genealogy books for entertainment.  Fortunately my beautiful bride loves to do this as well. Jeanine works for Delta Airlines which affords us the opportunity to travel cheaply.  I am a Sr. Applications Engineer (Data/Internet/Voice) for AT&T at the region level.   In between all that goes on in a house full of teanagers, we do manage a little bit of time for our advocation which of course is genealogy.  We have an office in our home that is filled with books, a couple of PCs, and a microfilm reader.  We have enough on our book shelves alone to keep us busy for years let alone the 300 or so emails that we receive everyday.  Sometimes we will go a full week without doing anything with genealogy if you can believe that.   Right now we are getting a nursery ready for the new baby.  Jeanine is due in June.  We thought that we were done with our babies ten years ago.  So we are buying cribs and the like because we gave them all away long ago.  We are finishing bedrooms for our children in the basement (just moved into a new home last June).  We are getting ready to send Brad (turns 19 in Feb) to Argentina for 2 years on a Church mission.  We will have our oldest home from Guatemala next September.  Our daughter is turning 17 on Tuesday and is in the midst of the dating thing after doing school work of course (she is a straight A student).  And from there on down we have very active boys with active friends who seem to think our home is the place to be...so we must work just to keep the fridge full. This morning our snow on the front lawn has melted to about 6 inches worth with the threat of new snow coming by afternoon. We are indeed very blessed!  Merry Christmas! Don (& Jeanine)