So, I have been setting up this cool online genealogy database for my web site and have been inputting my family tree. Well thanks to my grandfather’s research, I know who my great great great great great great great great grandparents are:

Henry Detcheverry was born in 1686 in Bayonne, Gascony, France, and Marie DeLacroix was born in 1688, also in Bayonne.

I don’t have the birthdates of my other set of great (x8) grandparents, but I do have their birthplaces: Rose Henry (Henri), born in Acadie (I am assuming that is in Canada); and Noel Pinet, born in Quebec, Canada. Their daughter Marie Pinet was born in 1722, so they were probably born right at the end of the 1600s too.

How cool is that, to know the names and birthplaces of your distant relatives, who were born in the late 1600s!!

Anyway, here is a partial list of all of the last names that are part of me. Of course there are many others that may never be known. But this whole project is really motivating me to start researching.

Henry (Henri)
DeLacroix
Pinet
Arseneau
DesRoches
Cheverie (Detcheverry)
LaRoque
Coolin
Ryan
Mullins
Shea
Nolan (or Noland)
Quigley
Kearney
McIntyre
McNeil
Coffey
Smith
Duncan
Hartwell
Johanssen
Poole
Sammis
Kearney
Lonergan
Riley
Nelson

We had Thanksgiving at my parents’ house this year. It was great fun as always! It’s going to suck to go back to work on Monday after spending such a fun couple of weeks with family. Here’s my Thanksgiving photo album. Below are some of my favorites from Thanksgiving: me and Adam and me and Brian.

On Friday, November 17, 2006, my grandfather William Stephen Riley was interred in the Columbarium at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. My mom’s step-siblings, aka the “Brown-Eyed Rileys,” joined us afterwards for dinner. Then on Saturday, it was another family reunion of sorts when my mom’s cousins Joan and Gail came to visit. It was great to see so many family members who I have not seen in a long time! We all had a great time. William Riley’s obituary can be found here. Family members can check out all the photos on my web site, but here are a few:

Me, my parents and brother.

My cousin Laurel, my mom’s cousins Joan and Gail, my aunts Lee, Laura and Anna, my mom, and me.

Me and Adam.