Children Of Mine by Laura Lee Bauerle Jaworski

Welcome to our briar patch. There are those people who think of thier family as having branches, like a tree. Perhaps their family does branch out in a nice, neat, easy to follow pattern. This is not the case with our family. My family and those that are related connect in such a way that it more resembles brambles than a tree. There are cousins marrying cousins and two sibling from one family marrying two siblings from another, etc. that eventually you are doubling back on your double backs. Sometimes it's enough to boggle the mind, not to mention trying to keep everyone's names staight. But in my attempt to organize 25 years of studing my family history, I hope to bring some since of sanity to this chaos.

I started researching my family history when I was 9 years old. The town I grew up in was first settled by my gggggrandfather, Peter Hammond. My mother had done a report on him when she was in grade shcool and I found it and started adding to it. At the time I didn't even know there was such a thing as genealogy, I was just asking my grandparents and their siblings questions about aunts and uncles and cousins and such. As I began to learn more about research, my studies became more involved.