Random Ramblings

How is it.....my baby girl is a 7th grader...and my baby boy is a 1st grader now? My how times have flown by...and my my....how different life is not compared to 5 years ago. I have time for hobbies and such now, and have dove back into my old genealogy research. Wishing my maternal grandfather was still alive....he, like most Scots, was quite the family history story teller and loved family tree stuff. I still have some of the notes from him from when I first started the research back in the early 2000s. The stories I could tell HIM now about some of our family's past....*sigh*....he would love it. John Dan...John Duncan.... Angus' galore. Did you know, grandpa that Rachel was a MacInnis? That the Beatons lived not far from the Connolly's up in Cape Breton? That we were well known in the Highlands and Skye? Miss you, Grandpa!!!! In my midst of Scottish & Irish Geneology research....I dig into my paternal side...and have spent some time poking through Polish records to try and figure out this mystery of our family name. Why the secrecy? Why did Aleksandr change the spelling? WWII destroyed more than just thousands of innocent lives. It destroyed buildings ...and in some of those buildings....held documents. Documents of baptisms....marriages..... death records. All gone. Forever. Makes this particular branch of my family even more difficult to trace back. But....I have a hunch... and am following something right now....