Greetings, Cavendish Researchers!
The CAVENDISH list is growing - about 16 members now, up from the 5 here
when I signed on as list administrator.
I thought it would be helpful if we all introduced ourselves to one another
on the list. Let us know a little bit about yourself and what is your
interest in Cavendish research. Send your message to
CAVENDISH-L(a)rootsweb.com and a copy will be sent to everyone. Please don't
send attachments to the list, as not everyone here researches the same lines.
More than likely I've already told most of you more than you ever wanted to
know about me ... <g> but just in case anyone has been missed, I'll go again.
The VA-WV CAVENDISH line is that from which I descend, directly back to
William Hunter Cavendish, and if your connection is to this line, we're
probably cousins.
I live with my husband, Gary, seven house cats, and two dogs, in Kodiak,
Alaska. When Gary retired from the Coast Guard we bought our first house,
painted it purple, and are in the process of making it into our cozy little
home. Our youngest, Justin, attends college at the University of Alaska in
Fairbanks. Melissa, our middle child, married a Coastie and currently lives
in Mississippi. Elizabeth lives near us here in Kodiak, along with her
children Blake and Malachi. I've spent most of the past 25 years
housewiving. My interests are (big surprise) cats, particularly feral ones,
painting in watercolors, reading, music, and filling my Family Tree Maker
genealogy program with Cavendishes, McGraws, and many related West Virginia
families. My mother's side of the family are Clays and Youngs, also from
West Virginia. Presently I'm leaving research in that area to my first
cousin, Tim Spradling.
Though I grew up as a military child and spent little time in West
Virginia, I did manage to spend my senior year of high school in
Charleston, where I graduated from George Washington HS in 1971. The
following year I attended a women's college near Lexington, VA (very close
to Washington & Lee University) - and how I wish I'd been interested in
genealogy then! <g>
Happy Hunting, Frances