Happy Easter

Happy Easter. If we had little ones, we'd be hunting eggs in the snow, LOL. We went from Thursday and Friday being lovely 70 degrees to snow and a high today of 42.

I was so tired of not getting more than 2 to 2 1/2 hours sleep because I was setting my phone alarm so I could put drops in my eyes. Not to mention, I was having pain anyway. So Friday night I just decided I'd put the ointment in when I went to bed (as usual) and just sleep until I wake up. I naturally woke up 2-3 times and added drops but it was much better (though I did get a pain episode at 5am, darn). I could tell I at least felt much better rested yesterday. I did same last night. Got 3 straight hours sleep, then 4, then 3. And no pain last night. I know it will most likely come back, but at least sleeping better is a big help.

I decided to use my free day Friday and sign up for one month of Ancestry. I knew I'd get hooked again! It's all so interesting and so much information to find. I hadn't done anything more with it for a few years, so lots of new hints and found some things I just could not find before. Mainly my biological father's mothers info. Finally. Before I couldn't even find her and my grandpa's marriage info. I didn't know her maiden name and now I do and found their marriage license/certificate. Now I am able to find our more about her family. I also am trying to reconnect with a 2nd cousin, who's grandmother and my grandmother are sisters. We met when we were both 14 and my grandma took me back to Minnesota to visit her sister and family. We wrote letters and kept in contact into our early adulthood and then lost touch. I remembered her married name, kids names, etc, but could not find her on Facebook, before. In Ancestry, when I was looking for hints I found her daughter had a family tree, so I now had her daughter's married name. Looked her up on Facebook. Some sleuthing and I'm pretty sure I found my cousin, so I sent her a Facebook message. Haven't heard back yet, but I'm pretty sure it is her.

The other person I am finding lots more info on his my great grandmother on my mom's side. My grandpa's mom. I knew her name and birth date (my mom had that info). All's I knew is she left my grandpa and his 2 brothers when they were kids and their dad raised them. And that they had a half sister, but I had always assumed she was younger. That their mom left, remarried and had another child, but no, she is older, so this great grandma was married before she married my great grandfather. I'm finding lots more info on her and I think I found her first husbands name. I can't find info on either divorce, but it appears after she divorced my g.grandfather she took back her previous married last name. That is the name on the obituary in a newspaper I found. That had quite a bit of info. Listed all her kids and her siblings names. No mention of a husband still alive or preceding her death. Her family name goes WAY back. That will keep me busy forever, LOL. One of the hints for my 9x great grandfather shows an article that says he was an accuser in the Salem Witch Trials. That will require some more reading! I was on my phone app, so too small to read it all, but I will look into it, for sure.

Still no luck on my father's dad's side of the family, who came from Scotland. Still a dead end after his grandparents.  And still a dead end on my grandpa's dad, who went back to Denmark just before WWII and then they never heard from him again, though I was able to find out who his siblings were and starting to get some info on them.