I'm a native Californian, but I've lived in Frederick, Maryland, Broomfield, Colorado and Scottsdale, Arizona. I currently live in Los Osos, California. I am sure that I'll convince my husband to accompany me on many genealogy-related trips now that he has retired. We have four grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and two delightful granddaughters! We're also pet-parents to a sweet rescue dog. Genealogy research has been my obsess--I mean, HOBBY, since 2008. My paternal lines are: Wilcox, Harry, Charlton, Welles, Vincent, Kent, Sykes, Arnold, Purvis, Berry, etc. My maternal Southern lines are Pickett, Gazaway, Mitchell, Fowler, Strickland, Ellington, George, Langston, White, Biffle, Gillespie, etc. My husband's (mostly midwest) lines are Jenkins, McCoy, Norton, Bell, Ott, Deyo, Ashbaugh, Judkins, Rice, Taylor, Simpson, Gilpin, Artz, etc. Please don't hesitate to either post publicly or send me a message privately, if you think we might share ancestors and wish to compare notes.