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[YB]

My advice, Fours, if you are interested in your family history then start getting into it straight away whilst you have some older living relatives who will be able to answer many questions.
I showed little interest in mine until my grandson was born. I thought then I should try to put something together for him, although it may be many years before he is really interested. Unfortunately by the time I started in 2009 my parents, aunts & uncles had all passed on. I was/am really annoyed that I didn't ask questions when I had the chance

[Dan M.]

I'm very familiar with Cynthia Parker's story, but I didn't know there was a Parker's Creek to be lived in. That's cool. Through Ancestry, I found out my family arrived in the US around 1680. My heritage is 48% English/Northwestern Europe, 42% Scotland, 8% Irish, and 2% Scandinavia. So, yeah, I guess I'm full on white privileged and racist. Who knew?

[4AMNTN]

YES! I didn't know it until in my 40's but I love history! I've never had an ancestry check, hmmm. I've heard the story of Wiley Lynn - I have the DVD You Know my Name but haven't watched it. Not even sure what is shows of Lynn. And of course I've heard of Tilghman - Masterson, Earps, Garrett : then The Allan Pinkerton (another path) I mentioned I need to read a LL - still need to do that. Interesting about LL and Tilghman meeting - amazing. I am excited to hear of a sequel! So many questions from the first one!!! See THAT'S a great book. Nothing that I know in history from my family - 1620's ... English/Irish? But the area that we live in Burns (old Eastside) specifically Parker's Creek - a white woman that married the Comanche Chief that had captured her - Quanah Parker their SON also a chief .... it's THAT Parker's Creek - somehow. Her name: Cythina

[Dan M.]

YEA! Dan! Maybe they are Brad Meltzer fans? That did go out to the Twitter universe. I only have 300 followers - he has many more! We've had out Amazon account since ... around or/before 2000 so since I don't work - it's under Kevin's name for the CC.

Funny you should send that - I've been debating on whether to ask about the sequel??? And was reading up on Bill Tilghman the lawman that was shot by a federal agent - which was Wiley Lynn - Kevin's mother's side kin. The book: You Know my Name. -- wow history!

Kevin is related to Wiley Lin? How interesting! I love how history reaches out to touch us a little more closely sometimes than what we're usually aware of, if we're aware at all. I have a side kin connection to Meriwether Lewis way back some 215-ish years ago thay I didn't know about until we did Ancestry.com and I was able to start digging in to my family tree. You know, somehow a young Louis L'Amour met Bill Tilghman and learned things about gunfighting and other things from him before Tilghman was killed. LL credits BT in one of his novel dedications for showing him how it was done, or sometihng like that.

Regarding a sequel, yes, there will be at least one. I need to get off my butt and do it. It's just a first chapter and a lot of notes and ideas presently. I'm bound and determined to finish that Reacher/Longmire crossover story first. It's soooo close now.

[4AMNTN]

YEA! Dan! Maybe they are Brad Meltzer fans? That did go out to the Twitter universe. I only have 300 followers - he has many more! We've had out Amazon account since ... around or/before 2000 so since I don't work - it's under Kevin's name for the CC.

Funny you should send that - I've been debating on whether to ask about the sequel??? And was reading up on Bill Tilghman the lawman that was shot by a federal agent - which was Wiley Lynn - Kevin's mother's side kin. The book: You Know my Name. -- wow history!

[Dan M.]

Again congratulations— this was a wonderful book. I’ll tell everyone I can.

BTW, 4, thank you so much for the review you left (using Kevin's name?). Another review came in recently from "Riley and Jen". Do you know them by any chance. Usually when reviews come in a cluster there's a connection. If you do, please tell them thank you for me!

[Deanie]

No Bei with Stride

[4AMNTN]

sorry Stride, Stanton oops. it's been awhile ... Victor Methos is Stanton --- is Bei with Stride? I swaneeeeeeee

[Deanie]

Funeral for a Friend features Jonathan Stride. Good read.

[YB]

I like Brian freeman. especially the Jonathan Stride series. Unfortunately our library don't seem to get his books any more

[4AMNTN]

Thanks for the update. I wondered.

I am about to start Brian Freeman: Funeral for a Friend. Stanton & Bei. It's been a while ---

NYPD 6 12.15.20 Patterson
The Russian. 1.25.21 Patterson's Bennett
21st Birthday 5.3.21
John Sandford: Ocean Prey. 4.13.21

Nelson DeMille: The Maze 6.21
Nick Pirog Jungle Up 4.27.21

[YB]

I reported that I was reading the Lee Child biography "The Reacher Guy" a couple of weeks ago. Not finished it yet as I have broken off to read Find Them Dead by Peter James. The Roy Grace series, excellent as this series always are. Then I moved on to The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves. This is the latest in the "Vera" series and also very good. I haven't abandoned The Reacher Guy and will return to it eventually. It's just that my latest reads are from the library so want to finish them before I have to return them.

Also The Reacher guy is the kind of book you can leave and return to. Should be back on it soon, unless one of the other books I have ordered from the library becomes available.

[Gismo]

So are you saying some people think you're a curmudgeon, Gismo?

erm, well, ah, ahem, you see, lol, guilty

[Dan M.]

I'm currently reading a book called A Man Called Ove by Frederik BAckman.

I was told to read it by one of my friends cause he reckoned Ove reminded him of me

Check it out to see what it's about

So are you saying some people think you're a curmudgeon, Gismo?

[Gismo]

I'm currently reading a book called A Man Called Ove by Frederik BAckman.

I was told to read it by one of my friends cause he reckoned Ove reminded him of me

Check it out to see what it's about