2nd try...

It's been almost exactly 4 years since the last genealogy post here, but I've become interested in it again and want to give the site another try.  I've driven past Suel's land grant property a few times and noticed some ruins of a house there, for example, and I've been seeing these "family crest" sites pop up around the web that try to sell you information about your surname and try to sell you coffee mugs and keychains with what they think your family coat of arms looks like.  Then, Google digitized a copy of the Hovey Book and put their corporate watermark on every page, so I wanted to make sure the download link here is working and that anyone can get a Google-advertisment-free PDF of the Hovey Book here.  More on these topics later, and of course, if you have information you'd like to share, send it in and we can post it here.