Family Tree Frog

  Did anyone else feel like this when they went around the house turning over the page of the calendar to October ???  Where has the time gone?  Why haven't I achieved what I set out to achieve???   The little ghosts in this picture reminded me of some flourescent or glow-in-the-dark ghosts I had when I was a kid.  You could stick them on your finger and play with them after "lights-out".  Did anyone else have those in the 70s like me?  They were yellow but glowed green in the dark.  I loved those little ghosts.  Ah memories - right - back to scary older me in the 2020s.   I've always admired Nancy from My Ancestors and Me, who, at the beginning of every month, lists her family's anniversaries.  Have you set up a family calendar somewhere ?  I have mine in Google Calendar.  Here are my anniversaries for October: 1st October     Thomas Case and Maria Muzzlewhite marry in 1838 6th October  ...

    Eye colour Have you ever thought about the eye colour you've inherited?  Robert and I were discussing this the other day.  Where did we get our blue eyes from?  I think I got them from my Dad on the Conner side (English).  My mother had hazel eyes.  After meeting the McLoughlins (Irish) a few years ago, I realise I could have got my blue eyes from them too.  And a bit of research into military records shows the Forfars (Scottish) and Carretts (English) could be candidates too.   Robert thinks he got his blue eyes from his paternal grandmother.  She was a HINDE (English) but her father was a DUNCAN (Scottish) so maybe it's from that side.  Robert's eyes are a pale blue which you can see in my daughter Isabel's eyes.  My eyes are a darker blue which my son inherited from me. I remember both my maternal grandfather Tom and my paternal grandmother Ethel had brown eyes.  I didn't meet the other two grandparents and am ...