This is a minor update. I’ve done the Researchers page. Poor Bobby is all alone with a photo on this page! I tried to find a photo of me, but all I have is photos of Abby! I think the photos I had of me have either gotten deleted, lost during a crash, or are just missing somewhere on my hard drive. I looked for about an hour last night! This should motivate Michelle to get that photo of me with Abby taken, so I can crop it down to have a picture of me there! Oh yes, the rest of you need to send me a photo, too! We can’t have Bobby being the only one with a photo there!

I also created another photo album. These pictures were taken on Memorial Day last year (2006) at Oak Hill Cemetery of the Corel grave plots. Some of the photos aren’t all that great. It was very sunny that day and the shadows from the flowers we put out cause some difficulty in seeing the stones. Hopefully it will warm up a bit soon and I will be able to get back out the cemetery soon! I will be adding many more photos for James Pickens. Once I am able to get to the cemetery and take photos of other parts of the cemetery, I may move this page and have a separate section for the Cemetery Photos.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. We certainly did! Although I don’t think that I ever got nearly as much loot from the Easter Bunny as little Abby did this year!

That’s all for today, my only question is when is Spring coming back??

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First and foremost, I want to wish you all a very Happy Easter!

I have done a lot of work on the site this week, but unfortunately, my update does not show it! I have lost about 3 days of work, but not to a computer error. I decided I didn’t like the changes I had made, so yesterday morning I scrapped it all and downloaded what I had online and started over! I am proud of how much I accomplished in the past 24 hours, tho!

Now, on to the updates!

I have added much more to Cosby Jane Corel’s page. I have added a great deal of history on William Justice and some info on their children. You will see that I have not added anything for Albert Berten Justice. This is because he is the only child of William and Jane who will have his own page. Hopefully we will find more cousins and I will be able to add pages for more of the children in the future.

I have also made my first ’spouse’ family page, the Justice Family. I did not find a great deal on William Justice’s father, Alfred, but I was able to trace William’s mother back to another family that will be discussed in the future, the Parman Family. Giles Gilbert Parman married a daughter of Nancy Matney and Henry Highland Corel, Rebecca Elizabeth Corel.

I just love how so many relationships in the early years of the Corel Family intertwine with other families. While working on the Justice Family, I found the Parman’s and the Earnshaw’s! At this time, I have not found anything on the Earnshaw Family, so if anyone else has made the connections, I would love to know about it! I would dearly love to find some cousins down this line!

The next update to discuss is in the Photos section. On the album pages for Henry Highland Corel and Rebecca Oney and William Corel, I have found a new way to layout the images. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

My final update is a new link you will find in the ‘Interesting Links’ section. A descendant of Olivia Gillespie Corel McGee, Mrs. Barbara Rolph, is a co-founder/co-owner of a successful restaurant chain, Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Cafe. Barbara told me that the reason this name was chosen was because it was the most memorable. I must agree with that logic, who’s ever heard of eating Mexican and Irish at the same time? Ahh, well, Barbara has also reassured me that although they did try adding some Irish options to the menu, they are sticking with Mexican menu items!

Questions and thoughts

For this section of the site, I think that my biggest question is about the Earnshaw Family. As I explained above, I know that the two Earnshaw men that two daughters of Cosby Jane Corel and William Justice married must be related! Nothing really jumped out at me when I was surfing and looking, and I was eager to get this update completed, so I have left it alone for now.

My second question for today has to do with the set-up of the website itself. I feel like I need to add a main link on the top of the page pointing to the ’spouse’ families. It would be after the Photos link, but I do not know what I should call it. ‘Spouse Families’ just seems too silly and not very descriptive for people who just happen across the site. ‘Non-Corel Families’ sounds a bit weird, but might be better. Please give me your thoughts to either of these ideas, or make your own suggestion!

Also, I have been working on the ‘Researcher’s Page’, and I hope to get it up this week. Bobby Dobbins Title has suggested that we all submit a face shot to include on the Researcher’s page to allow us to get to know each other a bit more. I have a photo of Bobby and Joe Cullen, but I need to ask that the other researcher’s (Gene, Diane, Ella, Sandy, Ruby, Virginia & Tom, Barbara, and Shawn - this means you! I am so sorry if I forgot anyone here, but send it in anyway!) send me a photo. If others are in the photo, that is fine, I can crop the photos to make them all uniform.

OK, I have to wrap this up, gotta get ready to watch little Abby hunt for Easter Eggs!

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Wow, this is hard to believe, but I’ve done it. I didn’t think I would get to this point, but now I’m here! All of the children of William Corel and Rebecca Oney now have their own page!

My next goal is to go back over everyone who is posted and more completely tell their stories. I have more information about most of the children, and their parents. I even know I have more to say about William Jr., I just don’t know where I read the info at! I thought I had read more details about William Corel in the Agnes Hall manuscript, but I didn’t find it there. So, it must have been one of the many letters I have been reading lately. I need to go back through each of the letters and do what I did with Agnes’ manuscrpt last night, make notes on a copy calling out each section I want to write about.

Most likely the next couple of weeks will be several small updates, rather than the updates I’ve been doing once or twice a week. So that you aren’t overwhelmed by emails, I will keep the blog and email notifications to no more than 3 a week while I’m reviewing the first generation of Corel’s.

Last weekend I made some fun updates that I didn’t send a separate notification on. First and foremost, I have added a ‘Guest Map’ on the home page, at the bottom of the page. Click on the icon and you will be taken to a map of the United States. You will see that right now there are only two of us on the map, me and Bobby Dobbins Title. I think this will be a lot of fun for all of us to get a better idea about how spread out the family is in the 21st century! The free map allows for 100 entries, so please do not do separate entries for all of your children who live at home! But, please do an entry for you, even if you live in the same city as another cousin (for example, Mom, Grandma, and Mary Ellen all live in Lawrence and all three should make entries, if they wish!).

Another bit of updating I have done is to the Photos section. Now when you go to this page, you will see an outline of the different sections I expect to make. So far, I’ve completed photo pages for 4 sections. When you click on a section, you will see the thumbnails for the photos of that section. If you click a right or left button, you will be taken to the other sections, the up button will take you back to the outlined listing. If you click a thumbnail, you will go to a page for the photo with a description of the photo. Clicking the left and right arrows there will take you to the different photos in that section. The up arrow will take you back to the section page with thumbnails.

I have also been trying to get a site map up. For my employer’s website, I use a website that will create a site map for you for free. I’ve tried using it on Corel Cousins, but there is an error somewhere not allowing the site map to be made. I have so many pages that are connected in more than one way, everytime I have sat down to do a sitemap manually, something gets missed. I’m hoping to be able to use one of these free sites to help me get started! I’ll figure something out eventually!

I am also going to use this time that I am ‘fine tuning’ the site to make the Researcher’s page. That may even be something I am able to accomplish today at work, depending on how hectic the day turns out to be. I’ve created graphics for the email addresses for the main researchers. If I have left anyone out that wants to be added, EMAIL ME! No one responded when I asked people generally, so I emailed those who I know to be researchers of the Corel family.

I am hoping that before the end of April I will have

• the Researcher’s page completed,
• a page completed for the ’spouse’ familes (McGlothlin, Matney, Puckett, McGee, and Justice),
• more about William Corel and Rebecca Oney,
• more complete stories for all of the children,
• more Photo pages

and,

• a Site Map!

That will have me set to start on the second generation in May. Of course, this timetable is provided that there are no more serious illnesses or computer melt-downs, but I thought I’d share my vision with you all!

The grandchildren of William and Rebecca will prove to be an interesting challenge. There are so very many of them! The webmaster side of me is glad that we do not know all about all of the 100+ grandchildren, but the genealogist is sad that there are missing people! Hopefully as I am able to ‘grow’ the site, we will also be able to ‘grow’ our family by finding more missing cousins!

Questions and Discussions

I am curious about the young girl, Susan, living with Margaret McGee and William Corel. I haven’t had time to look yet, but I wonder if a grave may be in the Sutton Cemetery, also. I don’t really expect that she is, because surely she would be near Margaret and William, and Gene Dixon would have a photo of her grave as well.

I am also considering adding a section on the Peart family. For those of you who have no idea of what I am talking about…. On the 1850 Census, there are three Peart children listed as living with Rebecca Oney and William Corel. Their mother passed away prior to the census and the children lived with the Corel family. By 1855 these children were no longer living with Rebecca, but were living with Rebecca’s children. The Peart children may be cousins of the Corel children, or perhaps no blood relation at all. However, these children were a part of our ancestors’ lives. From the beginning of this website, I have tried to make this a story about the lives of Rebecca Oney and William Corel and their children, not just a list of dates. Plus, we do have a researcher of the Peart family among us!

Another question I have been asking myself since starting this is how much should I post on the McGee family here? I would dearly love your opinions on this! This site is the Corel Cousins and not the McGee Cousins, but three Corel children and one Corel grandchild married siblings from the McGee family. I have quite a bit of info on the McGee’s, thanx to Mom, Bobby, and Diane. Plus, I have discovered that through the McGee line, we have an ancestor who was in the Revolutionary War. I bet Aunt Gladys is just cursing me right now! (That would be my Grandma’s Aunt Gladys) She tried to join the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) through the Corel line. Had she looked more to the McGee side, she would have found that the great grandfather of the McGee siblings that married into the Corel family was, in fact, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. I haven’t done a great deal of research to be able to tell you many details, but I have confirmed with the DAR that Solomon Neidigh is listed as a patriot during the war.

So, I just don’t know if I should go back that far on a ’spouse’ family. I don’t have nearly this much information on any of the other families, so it would look as tho I am ‘favoring’ one line more than another, which is not my intention at all. What do you think?

Well, this is rather long, so I think I will wrap up here. I will have another entry by Saturday, but just in case any of you don’t get the chance to stop by then, I want to wish you all a very Happy Easter!

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Happy weekend everyone!

With a HUGE amount of help from Teresa this week, I have finished Rebecca’s page and have her uploaded. I am very thankful to Teresa for all of her help and guidance this past week! I have added some additional links in my writing on Rebecca. Most will go to pictures of items that I haven’t quite found a home for yet, but wanted to share. Especially Rebecca’s death certificate!

Rebecca lived through a very difficult time, as did all of the Corel Children. Yet she did endure and left a wonderful legacy of strength. Being the only child of William Corel and Rebecca Oney to not migrate to the Missouri-Kansas area, she was left being a young mother without the support of her parents and siblings. Recall that Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone until 1876, so it was not as it is today, with family only a phone call away.

One thing that fascinated me the most while preparing this page was to learn that two of Rebecca’s sons served with the South in the Civil War. Seeing that our family had men fighting on both sides has reaffirmed that the war did place brother against brother, and in our case, cousin against cousin. I have not allowed myself to delve too far into the Civil War history yet, because I know I will become quite side tracked once I get started on that one!!

Another New Cousin!

I was beyond thrilled this morning to open an email from Cousin Bobby. She has been in contact with a Friend of Corel Cousins, Stan. Stan has found a descendant of Rebecca through her daughter, Mary Evaline! The only other thing I know about this cousin so far is that he is from our area of the country, the Midwest! I am thrilled to no end to have another cousin found, and I hope to learn more about this cousin and have him and his family at our next reunion!

Other stuff

OK, here’s the ‘other stuff’ I put in the title of this blog, and something you have likely noticed by now. I’ve added a couple of ads to the pages. I am not looking to become rich off of this at all, I am just hoping I might be able to make the $10-$20 a month it is costing me to have this website. Don’t feel obligated to click on anything, because you aren’t! Right now, some of the ads are for ‘Corel Draw’ and ‘WordPerfect’, but I am hoping those ads will be gone within 48 hours and that the ads you will see will only be related to genealogy. If you see something that catches your eye, please click on it!

By adding the Google ads, I have also added a Google search to all of the website pages (not the blog pages). I had no idea until a couple of days ago that the search was not working on the site! (No one told me!!) I have done a basic search with the new search box, just remember that you need to select that you are only wanting to search Corel Cousins if you are looking for something on the site. I have added the option to not have any ‘adult’ material to come up in the search results, also, so the site should be safe for all of us!

If you have any problems with the ads or searches, please email me! I will work immediately to fix the problem, or remove the ad with the problem.

Questions and Thoughts

Well, the original questions I had have all been answered by Cousin Teresa, so I have thought about other, more appropriate ideas to discuss with this update.

John McGlothlin, from stories carried down through the family, is reported to have been a soldier in the Civil War. No evidence has been found by Teresa or myself that proves this, but the very fact that Wytheville was organizing regiments during the time when John died in Wytheville truly says to me that even if he wasn’t officially ’signed up’ yet, he had every intention of doing so. There may have been an incident that had nothing to do with the war. John may have been killed by ‘friendly fire’ while doing ‘exercises’ with the Wytheville Regiments. It is so very hard to say.

I also admire Rebecca for her strength when she found out that John had died. She would have been pregnant at the time, but it was early enough that she may not have realized she was pregnant yet. Of course it would be devastating to learn that one of your children has died, but the fact that she did not lose that baby, Amanda, is certainly admirable.

Oh yes, one final thought that occurred to me while working on this page. Has anyone else noticed that so many of the death certificates of the Corel Children show senility as a cause of death? Rebecca’s does not, and I was kind of surprised to see that. Is senility genetic? Are the Corel Cousins doomed to be senile? Well, that would certainly explain a few things about my Mom!

Just joking Mom! You know I love you!!

The next page is William Jr. - Gene, beware… the internet lines between us may heat up a bit this week!

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I just had to come back and tell you all thank you so very much for all of the comments and emails from my last blog! In case you missed anything, read the blog early before many comments were posted, or didn’t even realize that the comments existed, you can click here to go back and read what everyone talked about!

Unfortunately, I’m still stuck on the last question and haven’t been knocked over by another mystery I have encountered! To recap, I am dying to find out where Rebecca Oney Corel’s house was built. Thanks to Bobby Dobbins Title, I now have a digital version of a map with who had claimed where, at least in 1857. And thanks to Mom (Connie Bishop) I know where to see the full sized map of the area!

Wow, now isn’t that just awesome?

Well, I believe I had mentioned a while back that I was working on a bit of a side project. I’ve gotten it far enough to share with you all. But, while I am thinking about it, has anyone heard from Joe Cullen recently? I haven’t heard from him in awhile and I’m getting just a bit worried. Of course, he could be like some of the rest of you and out travelling and away from the computer. I certainly hope that is the case!

Oh yes, the project. Well, Joe has sent me some wonderful photos of his ancestors. I first created a simple web photo album, but neither of us was very happy with that. Joe asked if it might be possible to set it up as a family tree of photos. I have not added the actual lines that show the connections, but I fear that doing so might detract from the photo images themselves. I have fought and fought to get the photos to line up, and it is far from perfect, as you will see, but I am excited about this nonetheless!

Now before I give you the link to see this, I do want to explain that I have not added any text yet to detail the people in the photos and provide their information. In order to see who you are looking at right now, you will need to look at the (typically) blue bar across the top of your browser. You know, the one with the line to minimize, the boxes to maximize, and the ‘X’ to close the window. Right now, if you look up there you should see something that says “The Corel Cousins Blog: It’s…”. On each of the individual photos pages, you will see the names of the photos. I hope to get the chance to go back soon to add the actual text below the photos.

My next ‘problem’ with this page is that I don’t really have a place to put it yet! So, for now, this is the only way you can access the page: click here. To get to the individual photos, click on the thumbnail image you would like to see! I’ve been considering creating an index page for the photo pages, so that may come eventually. Another idea is to just have this page linked from the page I will create for Jemima Morris Corel. Quite possibly, I will do both. As always, I’d love to hear your ideas on how I might handle a page such as this, or anything you might like to see in the layout of it all!

OK, I think that is all for today! Hope everyone is making it through the week well!

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Not nearly all that I have is up, but I do have the basics. I found that I kept going back and back wanting to add more and more. I have to find a stopping point and move on to the next child. I already know that I need to go through all of the children to add more. A couple of the children may be as far as they can be until new information is found on the child’s life, or until I get into the stories of their children.

You know, the ‘hugeness’ of this task is starting to hit me. All previous projects I have undergone in the past were ones that I would finish easily in a week or two. LOL (LOL is ‘cyber-ese’ for Laughing Out Loud) This has already taken a month and I’m not through the first 13 people (William, Rebecca, and the children who lived to marrying age), and there is so much more to be entered just on them!

Oh yes, a side note - Be happy I’m using ‘cyber-ese’ rather than the ‘Valley Talk’ that was so big in the ’80s!

Anyhow, back to how big this project is!! So I just looked, and I have about 100 grandchildren for William and Rebecca!! Averaging one or two people a week, will have me done with that generation in about a year! Yikes!

Yes, I know you are now laughing. You were amazed when I said I wanted to do this. But understand, I thought this would be just another easy project that wouldn’t take too long. No, I’m not stopping this, please don’t think that. I am now amazed that I am doing this! You see, with all of the thank-you’s I’ve received for taking on this project, I’ve brushed it off that it was no big deal. Still, to me, it’s no big deal because I want to do it. Now, however, I understand that to each of you this is a big deal that someone is willing to take on such a huge project!

OK, so how did I come to this massive realization? I received an email from California Corel Cousin Bobby that she had some of her genealogy friends look at our little site. The response was wonderful, and I believe there was a bit of pride between the lines when she said they were jealous of not have someone in their line creating a similar site!

Minor Updates

I also made some minor updates yesterday. I went through and made sure each of the links was working right. Several were not and it was difficult to manage to one child’s page from another child’s page. That should be fixed now.

I also ‘fixed’ the full-sized photo for the 1924 Corel-McGee picnic. It is not the full original size, but it is still of good quality and much easier to see without waiting an eternity for it to download! I looked at the other photos and nothing else seemed to take too long in loading, but if you find any that do, again, please let me know! I haven’t played with compressing them any further than they are. They work good for me, but I have a cable connection. For those of you on dial up, especially, tell me if anything takes too long, it is not hard to fix and will only take me about 2 minutes per photo.

The next change has been the addition of ‘Friends of Corel Cousins’. It has been pointed out to me that it is not just the descendants of William and Rebecca who may enjoy this site, many others may find interests here in the stories of the Corel family as well! In fact, I have already personally granted Honorary Corel Cousinship to more than one person!

Never was it my intention to imply that only those who can prove blood relation are to be welcome here! So, I made a few additions of including the friends on the home page! So, to be certain, I want everyone to know that I would like to hear from anyone via blog comment or email who finds anything on this site they would like to discuss, ask questions about, or make a contribution.

As previously discussed

I have recently been contacted by a new found cousin! Her name is Janet, she lives in Oregon, and her ancestors are Cosby Jane and William Justice, Louise and Albert Berten Justice, Fern Opal and Glenn McHenry. Fern and Glenn are Janet’s grandparents. Janet has just begun digging through all of her family treasures and piecing together the family.

Questions for Today…

After working on each of the pages, I discover that I have questions without answers by the time I’ve exhausted my searches online and through my materials. I think I will start asking the questions here, first, so I don’t forget! and second, so that maybe someone with the answer can let me know! My first question involves the following photo.

Does anyone have a better map? LOL This one is pretty rough. I am trying to picture where the different families live and this is the best I’ve found so far. Yes, I know that if I go to the Douglas County Library or Courthouse, I will find the map showing exactly what I want, but life does not always allow for such trips! Does anyone have a photo copy of the 1857 map showing who owned what land? Does anyone have a digital copy?

In reading Olivia’s obituary several times in the last few days, I have become very curious about the property that is now Oak Hill Cemetery. I knew that the property was donated by the Corel family since birth, or at least since the first time I visited the cemetery! I did not know that the land that is now the cemetery is where the first house stood. Does anyone know where in the cemetery the house was? I have imagined that the tall tree next to the red McGee monument may have stood in the front yard. I have imagined that perhaps the house was on top of one of the hills that do not yet have graves. Or near the site where the Civil War soldiers are buried. One day last fall, Rick and I walked all over the old sections of the cemetery. This weekend we have discussed a second trip to go ‘exploring’, but this time with a camera!! There are far to many graves there, I have no intention of documenting the entire cemetery, or even the older sections! I have photos of James Pickens Corel’s monument, as well as the plots reserved for James Henry and his children. I need to get the McGee stones which are all right next to each other. It may take some time to find the others I know are there, but there are also just so many interesting stones. Then, I would also like to shoot the land itself. Unfortunately I will not be able to share some of the sites we saw this fall, as it was a couple of weeks after a tornado/microburst had hit and not all of the clean up had been completed yet. But I hope those of you who do not live in the area or had the opportunity to just walk around the cemetery and look at the land that was once lived on by Pioneers, and Native Americans before them, will enjoy what I hope to bring in the future, and perhaps dream with me of what the land may have looked like then.

OK, I’m wrapping! Now those of you who don’t know me too well see how I compensate after being too sick for too long! Have a GREAT week!

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Unfortunately I have not made any updates to the site yet and I am so very sorry. It is probably more disappointing to me than any of you, but I suppose that life will go on for all of us!

Saturday night I became very ill, most likely it is connected to the last time I was sick, which was about 2 weeks ago. Mom told me that it is OK and that no one would blame me for not working on the site, but I still feel bad.

I have been reading emails that you all have been sending, and Joe, I especially want to thank you for the stuff from last week. Time got away from me and I really owe you an email! Truth be known, I haven’t had enough energy to sit here at the computer for very long lately, and anyone who knows me knows that I must be sick if I’m not getting on the computer hardly at all!

I received an email this morning that absolutely thrilled me, and I just had to let you all know that this little site, although very far from complete, has found at least one NEW COUSIN! This morning I heard from a descendant of Cosby Jane and William Justice! I have responded to her email to let her know that I am so very happy that she has ‘found’ her Corel Cousins! I have not yet heard back from her, so as I try to protect everyone here, I don’t want to post anything else about her just yet.

I have also received an email from another recently found cousins, Ella. Some of you have emailed her and know who I am talking about, and, again, I do not want to reveal too much, but Ella is having some medical problems herself, so I would like to ask those of you who are of a spiritual nature to pray for Ella and that everything works out well for her.

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With a name like that, she deserves to have so much time taken on her page! She has an extra page, like James Pickens, crediting and showing a wonderful map I found online. I’m pretty sure I have the areas marked correctly, but I certainly hope that Bobby will let me know if I need to make any changes!

Nancy is another I have given some extra attention to. I wanted this page to be perfect (I hope it is, but will survive if it isn’t!) to honor not only Nannie, but her great granddaughter, Bobby Dobbins Title. At this time, I have not included a ‘future link’ for the LaHay family, because I have not found a great deal on this line, outside what you will find on Nancy’s Corel Cousins page and Bobby’s Rootsweb page.

I need to admit that after completing the first half of Nannie’s page, I had to stop for a short time. We all have hardships in our lives and struggle through those hardships, sometimes wondering if we will survive. Nannie’s story helped me view my own personal struggles in a different light. Here I sat, nearly 143 years after the fact, moved to tears by the harsh life Nannie must have lived during her first 30 years of life. Worst of all, this was a time of ‘outhouses’! And I have problems using a public restroom!

Nancy is now completed and my next page will be Olivia. Olivia excites me because we have so many photos of her and her descendants thanks to Gloria Rakocy and her sister Daphne Pereles.

Again, I do want to mention that as soon as I finish Olivia, Rebecca, and William, I will be going back to the other children to more fully tell their stories.

Once again, Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

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OK, I received an email from Mom, so I thought I should at least post a blog to let everyone know what’s going on!

This has been an unusually busy week at work, not allowing me the normal time I have to work on personal things. Additionally, I became a bit sidetracked while working on the next page, Nancy Maryland Corel. I am about halfway through with what I have mapped out in my mind.

Nancy moved her family to Colorado. Being a Kansas girl, I know quite a bit about Kansas history and have different sites I utilize regularly. Colorado is a whole new state! I have been trying to do some research for some additional information to add to her site. I finally was able to find something relevant yesterday and will try to have the page up later today!

Another issue sidetracking me has been working with one of the Corel Cousins with some very excellent photos. I am very excited about this ’side project’ and hope that it will encourage you all to send me more information about your individual lines.

I know, we are all busy in our every day lives, some of us work while others may have other obligations taking care of family or even volunteer organizations. Plus, there is the everyday life occurences. It never fails that as you are rushing out of the house late for an appointment, that the toilet overflows or something of equal importance needing your attention. I also am aware that few of you actually know me! I am pretty shy myself and haven’t emailed anyone individually yet that I do not know. That will be changing rather soon.

After I have Nancy’s page done this weekend, I will email everyone individually asking your permission to include your name and email address in page that lists the researchers of the different lines.

OK, that is about all for this morning. Everyone have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Mom and Michelle are walking in the KC parade this morning with their dogs and Michelle’s husband and daughter. I hope they send me pics of the fun they will be having this morning so I can share it with you all.

I would also like to honor Cosby Jane Corel Justice this morning. Today marks the 177th anniversary of Cosby’s birth. Happy Birthday Cosby Jane!

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And KU is the #1 seed for the West! Of course my brackets will show KU going all the way. It’s who I choose every year. Of course, the guys I work with laugh at me every year, but it’s OK, because this year just may be the year! After winning the Big 12 tourney in OT, who’s to say they don’t have a chance? It’s been their best year under Coach Bill Self, and I think it’s time that they give him a National Title. Only time will tell.

Did you know that the Corel family is connected to the father of basketball, James Naismith? His daughter, Margaret married George Stanley. George is the son of Anna Corel and J.R. Stanley. Anna is the youngest daughter of James Pickens Corel.

In other news, somehow I actually finished the pages for Margaret and Mary. That leaves Nancy, Olivia, Rebecca, and William. Wow. I’m more than half way there! I’d like to say that I would be able to finish one child a day, but I really do have to go back to work! I have lots of info to sort through on Nancy and Olivia, so I’m not going to guess on how quickly I might get through this!

I’ve also added to the main page. There is now a section on the variations of the way Corel has been spelled throughout the years. I had planned on adding this to the page, but wasn’t sure of when or how, but an email from Bobby suggested I get it up for ‘unfound’ cousins searching for the Corel family. Bobby also had another wonderful idea. She suggested I create a page that listed the email addresses of the other researchers of the Corel family. I can easily create an image of everyone’s email, similar to what Rootsweb does, to reduce the likelihood of spammers getting anyone’s email. I would like to get other opinions about creating such a page! Please email me or leave a comment on what you think!

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