Working today on one of my very old branches- the AUCOIN family. They lived in La Rochelle France in the 1500's.  Records found give us the various spellings of this family name:  Aucoing, Ancoing, Auconnois, Oguin, Angevin, this last derivation could come from a more ancient form of the name that would  have originated in the Angers region.

Martin Aucoin (1570-1650) is the furthest we go back right now, and he is my 9th great grandfather on the Cormier side.

Also did a lot of work on the Cunningham's (Cormier line). I searched all the census records I could find and have changed Rebecca's father from John to William because I found the 1851 (or 61) census with a William C, with a daughter Rebecca. The ages seem to fit together better than any others so I am going with that for now. Then further searching led me to a treasure trove for NB: www.nbgs.ca with a well organised (alphabetized) file of first families of NB.
 
Spent a couple of hours at our local public library, which turned out to be quite a profitable endeavour. We brought home a huge pile of books to use in our research and these should be really interesting to go through. The library has a very good section on genealogy and also on history and we plan on making good use of them.
 
Worked a lot on the Slauenwhite page today- what a bunch! I think I have 8 generations (which really isn't too much to handle) but it gets complicated way back because dear old Johann had 3 children to whom I am related!

Spent a lot of time trying to read a few on-line German articles about the Schlagentweits, certainly part of our family tree somehow. It would be great if one day someone figures out how they tie into the family.

A huge amount of work on the Slauenwhite tree has been done by one awesome man- Mr Bob Hegerich, and I must give him massive credit for all the time and energy he has obviously put into getting things right. Thank you Bob!
 
Started working on the Cormier pages this morning and here it is 9:30 pm and I've finally finished the basic information. Did a little research on the origin of the Cormier name, especially Saint-Aubin du Cormier. This is a huge family tree and will have quite a number of pages one day. I added the resource page with a list of books that I've read and found useful in researching and learning about my family history.
 
You probably can't imagine how much work is involved in organizing a rather large family tree website! If I only had 10 generations to deal with (and believe me I have some branches with far more), there would be over 1,000 primary names to deal with! With 20 generations the number grows to over a million! 

What's so much fun for us (hubby and I are working on our families separately), is discovering periods of time in history when our families lived extremely close to each other. I'm pretty confident that if we keep going we will one day find a real connection. There are already some vague ties to Charlemagne for both of us.  His family is 100% Dutch going way, way back. Years ago we thought my mother's maiden name (Slauenwhite) was Dutch as well, but that was quickly shown to be German. Then just this week I found my Dutch ancestors! So with a bit of detective work who knows what might connect us?

Today I'm continuing on the pages for my grandparents. every time I post some of the family trees I get waylaid on a few wild goose chases, but honestly, these are the genealogists dreams! Genealogy is a hobby for nitpickers and since new information is being put on the internet every day, it is almost impossible to keep up with it. But we keep trying, yes we do!

Kim