SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: SATISFACTION

It's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings
and here's this week's challenge:

For today's SNGF, if you choose to participate (cue the Mission Impossible music!),
please:

1) Tell us about one (or more) "Satisfying Genealogy Moments" from your family
history and genealogy research. What was it, and how did it make you feel? You
can make a Top Ten list if you want to!

2) Write your own blog post, or make a comment on this post, or make a comment
on Facebook, and tell us about your "moment in time."


So here's mine

1) This has to be when Aunt Dot gave me the West Family Bible last year. The only
thing that could ever top it would be finally breaking down the John Cutter West
brickwall or finding evidence of my Mom's family in Ireland.

2) The visit to Maine this year where I attended the Ellingwood Family Reunion
and especially visiting the graves of John Cutter West, Asa and Florilla Ellingwood,
and James Dunham and Sally Houghton.

3) Discovering online images of the Revolutionary War Pension Request files for
nine. ancestors.

4) Making contact with fellow Barker descendants Nancy Downey and Howard
Kaeplin who helped fill in some blanks in my Barker research.

5) Discovering online transcriptions of correspondence between the Massachusetts
Bay Colony Council and ancestor Simon Willard.

6) Discovering online transcriptions of correspondence between the Massachusetts
Bay Colony Council and ancestor Jeremiah Swain.

7) Discovering online transcriptions of Essex County Quarterly Court case records
involving many of my ancestors who lived in Essex County.

Visiting those gravesites, seeing that family bible and those records, all brought home to
me how long my family has been here in New England. It's given me a greater interest
and appreciation for it's history.

By the way, four of these have happened this year so it's been a very good year for me!