GENEALOGY - WE LOVE THE PUZZLE

Many of us are involved in researching our genealogy, finding our ancestors and learning about their lives. At Writers Circle next Wednesday, Mary Mike Keller will begin a series of classes called Bones to Flesh. She takes the dead ancestor and fleshes him/her out with all she learns about this person through research. She is very good at this, and I want to find some of my Council and Robison ancestors in her classes. 

I have traced my family back to my great, great grandparents who lived in the eighteen hundreds. 

Great, great grandpa John Cecil Council lived a long life, two wives and two families, in north Florida. But no one I  know has a clue to his father's name. His mother was Temperance Council, no maiden name. 

On my mother's side, I know the name and some other information about her grandfather, John Monroe Robison. He served in the Confederate military and I have papers showing his records. But who was his father? 

These are some of the questions I hope to answer in the class Bones to Flesh. 

Writers Circle - Where Writers Feel At Home

Today began warm and sunny in Hayesville NC and especially at Writers Circle where students arrived to take the first class in my new writing studio. Among those attending were Ash, Nadine, Ginny, Judy  and Vicki former students of mine. But also I welcomed new students including Lucy and Tipper. They dug deep and discovered some obsessions and some passions to  write about. Because we were a three hour class, we had no time for critique but hopefully each person when home with several ideas to get them started.

Tipper, Nadine, Judy, Ginny  around table. Linda in back at Writers Circle on Tuesday, April 6. The subject was Who are You and What do YOu Write?

Ash revealed his mission plan for coordinating a world wide effort to honor WWII veterans and Wayne Drumheller is on board to get Ash up to Washington to see the monument honoring all who fought in that war.

Wayne Drumheller explains digital books to Lucy, Ash, Vicki and her grandson, and Ginny at Writers Circle Tuesday.

Wayne found an enthusiastic response to his presentation of digital books using Creative Memories software. Soon we will have him back here to help those who want to get started.

If you would like a schedule of upcoming classes for Writers Circle, please email Glenda at gbeall500@gmail.com