To Lori:? Where do you live in AZ???? email sdl7394@aol.com???????????? These stories about the Blooms are great ancestry stories.?? I love having them in my Family History book. my family lines:???? Whitaker/Postlewaite/Gearhart/Norris, etc.??&?? Norris/Rowles/Reed/Read/Hoover/Bloom, etc. ~Doreen, Mesa AZ Hi Geni Friend Connie, ? What a wonderful story of the lives of your ancestry, wish that I could say I had a BLOOM in my family. ? Thank you for sharing & a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW 2009 YEAR ! ? Lori ;- ) in Arizona formally from Washington, PA.