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MelissaH

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  1. Hi Jenn,

     

    I've been going through exactly the same thing for almost a year...we've had 2 early MC's and every month has just been another let down when we get another BFN.

     

    Try to keep your chin up and keep trying and make sure you talk to your doctor (I'm sure you know that!) Mine has been so helpful and has been really good at keeping me positive! Let's hope 2009 is our year :)

  2. I think you both might like "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen.

     

    Matthiessen took a trilogy he had written and combined the three books into this one.

     

    You can read more about it here if you're interested...

    Shadow Country | Orion Magazine

     

    The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon might be good too, if you haven't already read the books :)

     

    I wish I could get John to read more than magazines!

  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by hmj View Post
    Hi everyone! I am so excited! I just booked our wedding at Barcelo Maya Caribe. We had booked our wedding at RIU Playacar until we found out they could not accomodate more than 60 people for the reception. On the slight chance that there could be more than 60 people attending, we had to change it. After having a little bit of a freak out this AM, we are now booked at Barcelo Maya Caribe for April 24, 2009 at 3:00!!!!!! I'm SO excited! I think I like it way more than the RIU! I haven't contacted the WC yet, but I do have her email from the TA, so I will get right on that. I am learning SO much by reading all the posts on here!! What a lifesaver! Any advice anyone wants to give that's not on here already, feel free!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the photography by Elizabeth Medina, but we're kinda on a beer budget, so I might be stuck with the resort photographers...we'll see. I feel like photography might be the ONE thing NOT to skimp on. Anyway, thanks! I just wanted to share!

    If there is one piece of advice you should not ignore it's this...definately DO NOT skimp on your photography budget. We did and we've regretted it ever since - even my hubby who was totally against spending extra money on an outside photog is upset about not having better wedding photos. (I twisted his arm enough to have an hour of offsite photos done with Erik Rodrigues, but our ceremony and family shots were done by the resort photogs).
  4. Here is the info for the DNA tests through Ancestry.com

     

    Maternal Lineage Test (Mitochondrial DNA)

     

    Learn about the ancient ancestry and early human migrations of your maternal line forbearers. For both female and male participants.

    $179

    Female Participants:

    If you are interested in exploring your paternal lineage, a DNA sample must be provided by your father, brother, or a male cousin on your father's side. Choose "MALE" for the participant's gender and select a Paternal Lineage test.

  5. Here's what my uncle has to say...

     

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    Hey Melissa n John!

     

    We're doing pretty good. Busy as usual. How are you?

     

    In regards to your question, the first place to check out would be

    the web site for the Latter Day Saints... FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records. The

    information there is not always accurate but is reasonably decent and

    it's free. Another site would be rootsweb.com. The rest of the sites

    such as ancestry.com are all pay sites. They have the best

    information but if you're searching in Canada, there are no birth

    records prior to 1869 and the census records are spotty with

    information. You can search the Canada archives which may give a

    little information. There is a census site called

    Automated Genealogy which is pretty good.

     

    Other than that, the best information comes from church records, but

    you have to go to Toronto or to the Latter Day Saints and rent the

    microfilms for whatever church you're looking for or what specific

    area. Then you spend countless hours looking at really bad

    handwriting or on occasion, trying to decipher Latin. The

    again...That's if some 90 year old woman isn't hogging the viewing

    booth!!!! Seriously...it looks like a geriatric ward in there

    sometimes! It's what you do when you retire I guess..

     

    It's fun sometimes and can be tedious as it may take a couple years

    to find what you want. Depends on how interested you are in it, how

    far you want to go back and how much of your life you want to spend

    doing it. Believe me, it can drive you nuts sometimes!!!

     

    Hope this helps!

     

    Love,

    Uncle Mat

  6. Let me get in touch with my uncle, Glenda. He's done a ton of research for our family and I'm pretty sure he's used a couple of companies to help him out. I'll send him an email now to find out where he's gotten all of his info - he's been researching for probably close to 10 years and has enough to fill a book.

  7. I just thought I'd let you all know that I'm leaving the forum...

     

    I'm starting some courses in a couple of weeks and have so many other obligations right now that I need as much time as I can get, and as I'm sure you all know this forum is a huge time sucker.

     

    So it's been fun :)

     

    Good luck with all that's going on for all of you :)

     

    Melissa

  8. DH & I just spent the better part of our day on the couch watching Ghost Hunters on You Tube - the one at the Rolling Hills Asylum was pretty cool because we've been there - one of the scariest places I've ever been, and we didn't even go inside!

  9. Once we made our offer we waited for our real estate agent to call us to let us know if they'd accepted our countered our offer. They countered it, we accepted, then we had to go meet with our real estate agent and sign a bunch of papers.

     

    Then had to go meet with our lawyer to sign a bunch more papers and hand over the downpayment.

     

    Then we just waited some more for all the paperwork to go through.

     

    Before we closed we had to show that we had house insurance and obviously had to set up our mortgage.

     

    Pretty easy and totally not as scary as I think we all expect it to be!

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