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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sounds like great fun – I have taken some trips such as you described with my parents and read them stories about the GILLIAM’s and COLLARD’s and KENT’s and whatever relatives lived in the counties we drove thru. Luckily for me my father was still in good shape for driving so I could provide the navigation and narration as we traveled along.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Denise Sproed<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The web page I made for my parents is at: <a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My genealogy related pages are at:<br><a href="http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/</a><br>and <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a><br>The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) <a href="http://www.whollygenes.com/">http://www.whollygenes.com/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve & Ronda Howard<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] Genealogy trip<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This summer my Mom, Dad, my youngest daughter and myself went on a genealogy trip. I ended up driving 6,808 miles in 3 ½ weeks. We went to 12 states. My Mom has had several strokes and I wanted to go while she was still able to tell me the stories I’ve heard for years in the places they happened. They have taken these trips every few years since the late 80’s. I got to see a house my Mom lived in, the farm where my grandmother was born and raised, the graves of my g grandparents, my gg grandparents and two of my ggg grandparents. We drove around land that used to be in the family. We went to libraries, historical societies, and courthouses. It was my first time hunting in a courthouse. We were in a small courthouse in Kentucky. I looked through a file folder of wills from the early and mid 1800’s, all handwritten in pencil. It was a thrill. We met shirttail cousins and saw a lot of country. Mom and Dad were tired, but we all had a wonderful trip and I highly recommend going before it’s too late.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ronda<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS I also recommend avoiding the poison ivy. =)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>