Who Do We Think We Are?

Parrish and I have been watching the new show "Who do you think you are" where different celebrities track their ancestry to find out where they came from. It inspired me to start an account on ancestry.com, and I found some rather fascinating stuff about our little ol' clan. I ran into dead ends on the Polings, Jamesons, and Youngs, but the Merricks...oh, the Merricks. Here are a few highlights...

• Either William Hays (Great Grandpa x 7) or Hardy Hays (Great-Grandpa x6) fought in the Revolutionary War and thus received a land grant of 200 acres in Georgia.
• Jean Jacque Reneau (Great Grandpa x 6) was born in 1739, immigrated from France, married a girl from North Carolina (Mary Ann) and lived to be 100.
• Richard Glover (Great Grandpa x 10) was born in England in 1611, fathered William Glover with Mary Booker in Virgina, but then somehow made it to Indonesia in time for his death in 1684.
• Arthur Jordan (Great-Grandpa x11) was born in 1595, died in 1635, and immigrated from England to Virginia somewhere in between. (The first Thanksgiving was in 1621)

I'd love to find more info out about the Polings, Jamesons, and Youngs...does anyone know the names and birthplaces of John Milton Poling's parents, Grandma Poling's parents, or Granny Merrick's parents?

Finally

Well, I finally used my "find" from the crap swap that we had last summer at Walt's house. I inherited some frames from Linda that I planned to use in Charlie's nursery but it just took me forever to decide how I wanted to use them. If you haven't already seen them on our blog, check it out here. The frames are on the second to last picture... the three frame set on the far left and far right. We put some of Carson's "fishing" pictures in them to fit the nursery's theme!

Sorry we're not the best about posting on here, it's hard enough to keep up with our personal blog. If you want to see what's going on with us, come on over to our blog here.

Thanks Linda, they look cute! Stop by soon and come see them yourself!!