weekend: depot babysitting and family findings

Just so you know, Betty (far right) was my grandmother and James (sitting on the fence) was my grandfather. They were both fashionably fabulous, and wonderful people. I wish I had got to know them better while they were alive, but digging through boxes of old family memories has given me a good idea of who they were.

I also found the documents from the Illinois State Archives that proves I am (super) distantly related to Abraham Lincoln, although it gets quite murky when Mordecai Lincoln has a son named Mordecai Lincoln, who names his son Thomas Lincoln, who then names his son Thomas Lincoln, but there are also cousins named Mordecai and Thomas Lincoln. But it's all there.