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14 months later.....

I tend to roll my eyes a bit (figuratively) when bloggers apologize for not posting for a while.  I can't imagine readers sitting on tenterhooks waiting for posts and getting offended if someone takes a week or two off!  Perhaps taking over a year's break is a little more strange.  However, I would bet my hat that no one has really cared all that much or been in the least offended, so I won't apologize, just explain a little. Last summer was a large family reunion that's held every 5 years or so, with 100-150 attendees.  10 years ago I had offered to write a family history book, and had never actually finished it.  Hence my entire spring was taken up with finishing this book.  I actually lost a fair bit of eyesight, apparently permanently, with the many hours, days, weeks on the computer.  I did genealogy research that found ancestors back to the late 1400s!  To be accurate, my research consisted of finding other people's online research and figuring out where it