angeldreamer

Pictured: Elsie Elizabeth (Neumann) Rector
b.1901 d.1991

I have been researching family for several years. After becoming disabled, I had to stop researching for a few years, and now that I am getting back into it, I am so happy to find that all of the things I had to look up by hand such a short time ago (or even send for by snail mail) are now one short click away online!

Now that the “easy” part is pretty much done, you know – talking to family, looking up census records, etc., I am hoping to find records of family coming from Germany, or, in one case, Ireland. I don’t know where to look, but I’m sure it starts on the internet!

Names that I am researching include these main branches: Angel, Rector, Closser, Neumann, Bock, Crandall, Gerbitz. . the list goes on.

Now that a disability has put me at home and taken me away from “regular paying jobs,” I am wondering if this is the wake-up call that I have needed to finally pay attention to whatever gifts I may have. Since childhood, I have had visions or communications or “feelings”. I was “hushed” by adults when I was a child, and I certainly learned not to say anything as I got older. I don’t know how to sharpen my ability, if I do have ability. I hope to find someone who can help me figure this out.

5 years and counting. I have good days and bad, but the last three days have been torture. I do have pain meds, but on days like this, they don’t help much. I have many different things wrong with my back. I am a nonsurgical case, but if they COULD do surgery to fix the two discs that are bad, I have been told that it would only aggrivate the other problems I have!

So, I have an ongoing goal. No pain. I will not be in pain. Not today. Not much. Not as much. I hope. :)