Welcome to my first blog post.  I have been researching my family for a little over 20 years.  I have taken a few research trips digging up my southern roots in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.  

My family search names are:  In Mississippi and Alabama are Christian, Moore, Stovall, Plunkett, Cantrell, and Lewis.  In Arkansas Dickson(Dixon), White, Ralls, Ligon and Story.  All of these migrated from the Carolina's, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.

I am a member of National, State (serve on the board) and local (President) societies.  I live in Illinois but am a member of many out of state societies.  

I am working on a couple of applications to become a member of our local DAR society and have various patriots that I am working on.  Seriously thought I had one this week and find that my hold up is my grandfather who lied about his age to get married.  I have put in a lot of research time in the last few weeks trying to get one of these patriots approved.  

I sure wish things would open up again so I get get out to some of these research facilities in person.