Where am I really from?

This is a photograph* of my maternal grandparents.

This photo was taken in 1943 when they were 24 and 18 years old.

Willard and Nettie Uldine from Georgia. 

But before that?

Before that? That's the real question. Where am I actually from?

That's exactly what E asked last week and I'm here to answer.

England

Ireland

Scotland

But, you've seen me, I'm sure that's no shock. One look at me and I bet you guessed one of those countries.

Lately I've been doing a lot of research into my family genealogy and discovered a lot of different things. Like did you know there is a story in my family that Anne Lee, who married my great x5 grandfather Robert was Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee's sister?! The records on this have been lost over the years due to fires, floods etc, but that's the story!

I discovered that back in the 1700's there are records of three Wise sisters marrying 3 Denmark brothers. Oh to top that, from the records it looks like they were all first cousins. But that was common back then. You know keeping it all in the family and keeping the blood line "clean". Nice.

Of course my husband decided to do some researching of his own. From this we have found some pretty interesting names on both sides. For our next baby** we've picked some pretty rad names from the family history.

For Boys:

Turrence

Archibald

Malachi

Seaborn

Ulrich

Barnabas

Shadrick

Willoughby

For Girls:

Faithy

Mourning

Jincey

Waster

Phylinda

Delphia

Keziah

Favorite combo has to be Malachi Ulrich for a boy. And don't you just love how they spelled Mourning - as in grief, not like Morning - as in dawn.

I love how on both my side and Richards side there is only ONE person out of maybe 100 who actually has the records. How come nobody else knows/has that information. When talking to family we got a lot of "ask Aunt ---- she knows". We should all know. My plan is to get all this information together and make a copy for Ariana.

*I love this photo so much it's framed and sitting my living room. They are both deceased now.

**Just for the record, we are NOT pregnant and this is NOT a real baby name list. This list is for entertainment purposes only.

Before he was my Husband!

This is one of my favorite pictures! 

It was taken April 23, 2004, almost exactly seven years from today.

It's me and my hubs, when he was only my fiancee, and he was graduating from basic training from the Air Force in Texas. I love it so much that it's one of the photos I carry around in my wallet. Husband hates the big hat but I'm pale and it was a hot sunny day sitting outside for hours for their graduation ceremony in Texas, do you blame me? Well, maybe you do, but I still like it! I kinda felt like I needed to be at the Kentucky Derby or something :)

Check out how skinny he was! Basic training will do that to you! Sorry for the quality, obviously it's a picture of a picture because I was too lazy to scan it into the computer. And let's face it, camera quality has evolved a LOT in the past 7 years! It's not the most stellar picture to begin with.

Still can't believe how long ago this was!

Flying from Georgia to Texas for his graduation was the first time really flying too. I flew once when I was like 3 but I don't really remember much.

I thought this would be fun to share, and I'm linking up with Saturday Snapshot over on Yellow Songbird. It's perfect since it's almost the exact day the photo was taken.

Happy weekend, folks!!

xo's

Cat