I, recently was asked to help a cousin on a small project (Susan Poznich).  I went over to her house to help out and we ended up talking about the family and how we seldom get together except for funerals.  This is true, I'm sorry to say.  We also discussed the fact that Interstate 45 seems to only go north.  Relatives in Kansas/Oklahoma don't like driving south to Houston to see us.  We always have to go up there to see them.  It's no more out of the way for them as it is for us.

    Anyway, while we were talking, I brought up that I had sent her mom, my cousin Betty,  an e-mail about trying to get some pictures of her siblings, parents, kids, cousins, etc. so I could add them to my family tree program.  I have always like putting pictures with all the facts and figures that are in genealogy reports.  She said that her mom (Betty) had given her a box of pictures, so me being the greedy person I am, asked if I could borrow the box and scan the pictures and return them to her.  She heartily agreed.  I spent about 8 hours scanning the photos and saving them  to my hard drive for later use.  When I finished with the scanning, I burned a DVD with all the family pictures I had scanned over the years (as well as the photos directly from digital cameras) and saved.  I gave her 2 copies, one for herself and another for her sister Fawn that also lives in Houston.

   The following Sunday, Susan came to church where I am the choir director and then over to our house to visit some more.  We talked a lot about relatives and where they are now and discovered that there are a lot more in the Houston area than we had previously known. We agreed that it may be that family reunion(s) could be held here in the future instead of everyone having to drive 600 plus miles back to Kansas for a reunion...I say "A" reunion and not "THE" reunion because we haven't had one before.  Funerals and a rare wedding is about all we Piersons get together for.  Susan has agreed to help out in getting one going here in Houston.    I don't know that fist fights may break out in the first reunion, but I'm willing to risk it.  There is almost as much politics going on in families as there is in Washington, but with out the traditional "my friend across the aisle" comments.  We tend to go straight for the jugular....

Back to the story, if it is one..... there were also a lot of pictures of my dad that I had never seen before, as well as many other relatives.  I had to explain who a lot of the pictures were of to Susan.  She wasn't too clear on her mom's cousins, let alone farther out relatives.  After I put the pictures on a DVD for her, I decided I ought to go back and redo the saved pictures with text on each picture to identify who was in it.....not only for Susan, but also for our kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, etc.  I'm still going through the thousands of pictures I have and labelling them for posterity....or maybe just to waste my time....that will be for future generations to decide on and not me.  I was lucky in that I was very curious when I was a kid and ask my grandmothers and grandfathers who was who and to tell some stories about when they grew up....a lot of these have been posted on the web here or are in the family tree I am continually working on to add new data.

Anyone that knows me and my cousin Dan, can more easily understand our strangeness from observing my dad and his in this picture.  Being bizzare is genetic with the Piersons.

I must go now to get my grandkids (Kayla and Cameron) breakfast now, there will be more later...........