I found it!

So, after a few months of searching, I have finally found it. I found out the relationship between husband's parents. They are third cousins once removed. I told my mother-in-law about this, and she was shocked. She always thought they were something more like fifth cousins. She said they had to be more than third cousins or else her children would have ended up retarded. Well, lucky for all of us, all of her boys are lovely and very much not retarded.

I'm still working on finding the relationship between my own parents, but with each new person I find on the tree, I come closer to discovering the connection. I have, however, been taking a break the last couple of days in adding people to the tree. I have instead been pruning and preening my profiles. Geni has what they call "Master Profiles." They have a wonderful format to them that will actually be very helpful with a little side project I'm working on that I won't mention yet. So far, I have four master profiles. (I'm so proud of them!)

In addition to updating my own profiles, I've also been helping fix some other people's work too. In Geni, when merges happen on two profiles, the "About Me" section is also merged and there is often duplicated information left behind. I've been helping out wherever I'm able in fixing this and leaving behind nice and readable profiles. I've become more addicted to that than I was in just finding relatives and ancestors (if you can believe it).

My goal over the next few weeks is to work my way through each project I am following on Geni and complete as many profiles as possible. My brother, who has a lot of source documents already, is slowly sending me copies of what he has to help with this.

He has been mainly helping in working out the true parents of one of our ancestors, George Hodson Triplett. His parentage has been a mystery for quite sometime. Rumors state a couple of possibilities, but I am looking for proof. I have to admit, I'm a little frustrated with this "brick wall". My brother claims to have some proof on the matter, but he has yet to get it to me, so I'm stuck waiting anxiously in the meantime. Oh well.

I guess that's about it for now. I will post again soon, and hopefully I will have something a bit more exciting to report.