I’ve been writing this blog for several years. Sometimes I talk about genealogy (especially my family), sometimes a book review, sometimes just a general comment on current events or whatever is on my mind that day. I like it when people coment. They can agree with me or disagree. all comments are welcome.

Comments are great. A chance to reconsider an opinion. Or at least appreciate the other side of the argument more.

But it is the genealogy post comments I wish to specifically mention today. Usually there is no response. Sometimes it is just something interesting that is related. But the ones that a really exciting is when someone tells me they might be related.

Last week I got one of these. It was related to a short Mckenzie post from over a year ago. The commenter thought she might be related and pointed out something on a record I had but which I had never noticed. Certainly a reasonable case that we are related but nothing definite.

We are emailing back and forth trying to fill out each other’s family tree and find that record which will make this tentative relationship more certain.