Quick update

I wanted to post a quick update before I leave to El Monte this evening. My sister and I and our parents will be going to Sea World tomorrow, staying in a hotel in San Diego, and then going to my sister's doctor's appointment (which is conveniently close to Sea World) first thing Wednesday morning. Fun stuff, huh? I'm going along because everyone else doesn't like to drive on the freeway. =) I've done some more work on my genealogy, getting some documentiation going, in fact I started a new blog dedicated just to genealogy stuff mostly for my own benefit (although you're welcome to read it if you're so inclined). It's more my style than a pen-and-paper research log. You can find it at my Yahoo 360 page. I've gotten some really promising leads from the FamilySearch website lately. Some are still in my research database because there's nothing linking them to my live database other than name and location. However, some have moved to my live database. For example, there is someone in their database with my paternal grandmother's name (Maria Luisa Echeverria, not a too-common name) born in Guadalajara 2 years after my grandfather was born and deceased 3 years before his second marriage. It wouldn't be good enough if I was trying to write a book, but name, location, and two dates related to other dates is enough to be reasonably sure in my mind that this is the person I'm looking for. Putting her into my live database gives me her birth and death dates and her mother's name. People still in my research database include four possible great-great-grandparents and four possible great-great-great grandparents (all four of my maternal grandmother's grandparents and her paternal great-grandparents). I'm not quite ready to make those connections yet, though. On my genealogical to-do list is to figure out how to request vital documents from several states in Mexico, because I'm running out of deceased American residents pretty quickly! Latest stats: Individuals ---------------------------- Number of individuals: 203 Males: 102 Females: 101 Individuals with incomplete names: 19 Individuals missing birth dates: 142 Disconnected individuals: 6 Family Information ---------------------------- Number of families: 62 Unique surnames: 48 Media Objects ---------------------------- Individuals with media objects: 73 Total number of media object references: 112 Number of unique media objects: 111