Maridee and I moved to Alaska in February of 1984.
Maridee grew up in Oregon and I in California. After 5 years of marriage
in 1971, I asked Maridee if she would be interested in moving to Alaska and
she said no she didn't want to live in an igloo. 5 years later in 1976, I
asked again and she said no she didn't want to live in an igloo. In 1983
we were living in the smog of the Denver area and I asked again and she
said sure lets go find out. We did, we moved and have lived here ever
since. And no, we do not live in an igloo! We live in the greater
Anchorage area (Eagle River, Alaska) with some of the most fantastic
scenery within minutes from the downtown area.
I took an interest in genealogy about 3 or 4 years ago.
Being so far away, I don't get to the areas I need to visit very often and
must depend mostly on the Internet, books and family records. I have
received a phenomenal amount of information, which will need to be
verified with documents of proof. We have made friends with people from
various other parts of the world such as England, Wales, Brazil, New
Zealand and the lower 48 of course. Maridee's lines have been traced back
to Ireland and England and we look for a beginning maybe in Scotland. My
Poindexter (Poingdestre) line will eventually trace back to the Isle of
Jersey in the Channel Islands. My other lines will probably trace back to
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but I have not made the connections
yet.
We love to travel. We have made 3 trips to Ireland and 1
trip to Scotland. We liked Scotland very much, but Ireland we love! I
spent 6 months in Japan in 1959. In 1988, we made a Caribbean cruise from
Miami to Jamaica to the Cayman Islands to the Yucatan to Miami. We made
our first trip to Washington D.C. in summer of 2000, what a visit. You can
feel the layers of history there. We must go back one of these days.
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