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Savannah is still dancing 5 nights a week in Sierra Vista. Sean is dancing 3 nights, plus has baseball the other two nights and then again on Saturday. So, we are going every night. Last May, Suzanne and I both bought new cars. After one year,
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As stated before, I usually my genealogy website primarily for the display of information. This new site is based on the TNG (The Next Generation) genealogy software. It seems to have a much nicer user interface and more sleeker look. Of course, I have massively tweaked the look for my taste.

My main genealogy tool is Family Tree Maker
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I had hoped to announce the site tonight, but I am still struggling with auto directing page requests to the old genealogy site to the new site. So, hopefully in the next day or two, I will announce the
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Tomorrow, we head off to Phoenix for the Regional Showstoppers Dance Competition.  The kids (and Suzanne) are really excited.  It’s a weekend away from the house and they get to have some fun dancing.  Savannah is really into dancing and takes classes five nights a week.  Sean is taking dancing as
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Today, I had the first opportunity to take a look at the info he sent me. While I really didnt get into the data, one piece of paper he included
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In addition, I have added a new sidebar feature that is the most popular posts on Mr Papa’s World. A while back
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Once again, the new information is largely due to the efforts of others. Several folks contacted me once again after finding there name on my family tree.
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The majority of this new information comes from Anne herself who kindly responded to a request for some information on her family which lead me to a bunch of info. This update still only goes back to Anne’s Grandfather and I still have some leads to
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The update does include a few new inclusions (Wehage, Ossim, Kott, etc) based on a few minor finds and some info passed on from folks who have visited Mr Papa’s World.  There are also some corrections to a few items based on additional info that folks have passed
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While not the genealogy update that I am still planning on making this weekend, I have uploaded some old photos of some Kott family members. My mother is a Kott.

I have put the images in the Mr Papa’s World Photo Gallery in a genealogy album. Eventually, I want to get them loaded into my genealogy tool, but this is a good start. Please enjoy the pleasant photos of a time gone by.

The images were
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After the wonderful Thanksgiving Mexico cruise, I am hard at work trying to get some photos ready for upload. Suzanne is cleaning them up and I am readying them for upload. If all goes well, I should have them uploaded this weekend, though it may take a while longer to get them all captioned.

In addition, I am hard at work on another Klasen Genealogy
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The vast majority of this update is on the Kott family (my Mother’s family). Norma and Nancy have provided most of
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The plans called for me to fly to Virginia on Wednesday morning and then return late Thursday night. I was a bit fearful when I made my plans to fly on Delta Airlines. I much, much prefer American Airlines (or Continental, or US Airways…) as I have had lots of bad luck on Delta. However, there
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Well, today, the new found relatives will be hooking up via teleconference with my Mother and Grandmother to meet each other and compare family history notes.  This is one of the many reasons for doing genealogy research.  My Mother is very excited about talking with Cousins and an Uncle she never knew.

The email traffic between all
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A couple of days ago, I received a phone call from a Nancy Kott.  My Mother is a Kott.  She has a sister (my Aunt) named Nancy Kott.  Suzanne actually took the call
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I concentrated on an area that I hadnt touched before – The Brunks. My sister Kelly is married to Timothy John Brunk and I had zero, zilch, nada on his family. I thought it important that her kids be able to see the family history on both
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When I get a bit of spare time, I have been finding little tidbits of information that I have been collecting. Recently, I also made a discovery of another family tree that had a pretty good tie in to my family tree. Last night, I completed the updates to the Mr Papa’s World Genealogy Site.

This was
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It’s been a while since I have done any kind of significant research on our family history. Last night, I updated the genealogy website with a few tidbits that I had gathered from Suzanne’s Dad. I have a few
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