Most of the updates here have been on the Parker family, which has its own page. I am thinking of creating a "Genealogy Main" page as the first stop for anyone who stumbles here looking for information on my research. There is the intention of creating pages for Pierson, Pilkington, and Bonsall family histories. There are some families on my mother's side I want to research as well. I sometimes wonder if I'm opening a can of worms here on my Parker research, as that I am learning that it just wasn't my third great grandfather's family who migrated to Indiana and then Kansas. One of his brothers' families migrated as well, along with his younger sister's. And earlier I learned today that some of his cousins came too.
A year or so ago I started tracing downwards as many known descendants of William Riley Parker, mainly to learn where they went after settling in Kansas. I may have to reach back even farther and go back to his grandfather. That will shed a lot more light on the migrations of this family, along with the Hodges who migrated with them.
If the information gets big enough it will justify its own website, as if I really want to be taking on other projects in addition to what I have going now. This blog started out mainly as a chronicle of my random thoughts and life experiences, and now side pages are popping up. I'd like to do a side page of my foreign banknote collection, alongside the "Ugly Money" page, which also needs updating.
I probably shouldn't be doing this until I retire, and the problem with retirement right now is that I'm having so much fun in my job to where I don't want to give it up. I am nearing the end of my career, I am in my groove as a Senior Product Test Engineer, and it's giving me plenty of satisfaction. Yes, I sometimes miss being a satellite engineer, where I learned a great deal about orbiting satellites, and got to go to Japan three times and Italy once in that capacity.
As for retirement, I have picked out a date, but am not making it public. I may delay it a few months. I can see pulling it ahead if the company re-organizes into a structure that I don't like. Management changes at the very top of the corporate structure have taken place, and some have taken place at lower levels. I am concerned with business units becoming too big to manage unless they are broken down into more manageable segments, which defeats the purpose of consolidating them into larger units which they say we need in order to meet our corporate goals.
OK, I just looked at the clock, and I've decided that I should shut up and call it a night. This transmission is now officially coming to an end.
