ISSN #1055-1891

Volume 15, issue No.1                         March 2002 .

Greetings Cousins...

Another year for us! Fifteen years! It's been great fun...great sharing of information...dear friends made...tears shed when friends and relatives have gone...great joy when mysteries have been solved and ancestors found. Many of our subscribers have also gone far enough back to be researching quite successfully in England. Any of you who have done that might I suggest you send us tips and suggestions so we can publish them for our subscribers who wish to do the same.

Enclosed you will find the Index for 2001 newsletters, and I would like to remind you that if you renew by June you will continue to receive the newsletter. There are 24 of you I'd like to hear from.

Once, a while back, one of our subscribers suggested that when and if you make a connection through the newsletter which helps you in your research on your particular line, please let us know. We'd be most interested in your story.

Well, spring is on its way. Your Editor is preparing herself for a family reunion in August. It will be in Nova Scotia with relatives on her father's side...the Irish McKennas who came to Nova Scotia in June of 1927. They were bound from County Kerry to Baltimore but their ship had such a terrible storm-tossed trip which had resulted in the emergency docking in Halifax for repairs that they decided that they were sailing no more and stayed where they landed. They eventually settled on land overlooking the Bay of Fundy where we will hold the reunion on the same land they settled on which is still in McKenna hands.

Have a happy spring...get out in your gardens and plant...vegetables, trees or flowers...it doesn't matter. It gets you away from the books...something like Spring Break for the college crowd without the rowdiness.