My siblings and I have begun work on a scrapbook about my mother's ancestors. Luckily for us, a lot of the geneology search has already been done by other people. On my mom's father's side, the family has been traced by to France in the late 1600's. On her mother's side, it's been traced by to Canada and Ireland in the late 1700's.

We have a few illustrious ancestors. One is George Drouillard, who was a hunter and interpreter with the Lewis & Clark expedition. Another was Elias Baker, Mom's maternal grandfather, who was a high-profile detective with the Detroit Police force at the turn of the century.

Mostly, though, what amazes me is the size of the families. Ten children, twelve. Yikes.
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