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Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2023

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  Every year, fabulous blogger and family historian Jill Ball on Geniaus issues a challenge to fellow bloggers to record the positive things that happened at the end of the year.  No matter how big or small the achievements, the emphasis is on the positive.     Here are my responses for 2023's questions:        1.  On revisiting some old research I found ... Hmmm….to be honest I had no time to revisit old research this year AT ALL.   Very disappointing.        2.  In 2023 I hooked up with a new (to me) living cousin ...   Thanks to my blog and also to testing my DNA with Ancestry (but mostly my blog), a new to me cousin contacted me in November.  I was so busy at first that I didn’t reply... so she contacted me a different way i.e. through my Ancestry account.  Bless her for persisting.     Our great-grandmothers were sisters.  I think that makes us 2nd cousins o...