harvey houston
Since I’ve been spending so much time on my genealogy project, I thought I’d insert some of my musings into the blog. I have the beginnings of a more organized genealogy on one of my other web pages, http://genealogy.mcirillo.com/, but I’ve been concentrating on research and haven’t updated it lately.
This is a photo of my great-grandfather, Harvey Carlyle Houston. This photo was probably taken about 1878 when he was 22 years old. Notice his huge hands. He was a Kansas farmer all his life except for a short turn looking for gold in Colorado in the early 1880s. He worked hard all his life but never had much to show for it except a large family. The only property he owned came to him later in life and through his wife’s family.
At first I intended to post info on just my paternal line, and then I intended to do both my maternal and paternal lines, and now I may do two separate sites. I entered my data into a genealogy software program called Reunion and converted the results for web use. I began to see that with so many sources for two different lines, things were getting confusing. I may use the blog as a testing ground for improving the genealogy sites.
