Gender	Female
Occupation	Retired
Location	Illinois, United States
Introduction	I love "looking" for my ancestors and learning about their lives. Now that I'm retired, I have more time for family history research. I am not a "names and dates" genealogist-family history person. I want to know what social, political, and environmental events impacted my ancestors lives. I like to visit places my ancestors lived to feel any energies that are left in those places by my ancestors. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES I belong to are: BIGWILL – the British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois genealogical society; ISBGFH - International Society for British Genealogy and Family History; LFHS - Lincolnshire Family History Society (England); LCIGS – Lake County IL Genealogical Society; NEHGS - New England Historic Genealogical Society; CGS - Chicago Genealogical Society; ISGS - Illinois Genealogical Society
Interests	Genealogy/Family History, Gardening, Cooking, Traveling, History, Geology, Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey, my children and grandchildren, my cats and doggie and of course my husband Bob.
Favorite movies	An Affair To Remember, Amazing Grace, The Young Victoria, any Jane Austen movie, or Charles Dickens stories, or most any chick flick.
Favorite music	Classical, Blues, Jazz, some R & B, some Rock, Beatles
Favorite books	Historical non-fiction as well as fiction.

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

None. Then everyone would be looking at my feet and not my orange wooly jumper!