To my husband-

Jonathan, my biggest fan and partner in every endeavor, I thank you for the decades of support and look forward to many future adventures in search of our own ancestors. Maybe we will encounter a few more breweries and find Bigfoot along the way.

To my children-

Gabriella, Hannah, Nathan (oh and nephew Brian), thank you for listening to all my stories about our ancestors and for traipsing along from cemetery to cemetery with me. May you continue to honor our ancestors by sharing our stories with future generations and uncover more stories of those before us.

To my Mom-

Look, Ma, I did it! I'm officially a genealogist! I miss taking you around from place to place to explore our ancestors' origins. I will forever miss you.

To my Dad-

I hope we get the chance to go back to Ireland and see the McKeon family homestead now that we know where that is! Thanks for taking me to Ireland, my favorite trip of all time! Scotland next?

To my Uncle Fran and Grandma Ruth-

Thanks for getting me starting with family history. I loved our Sunday drives.

To my aunts Pat, Mary Jane, Liza, Barb, Sue, uncles Ed, Fran and Brian

and all my cousins (Hi, Becca!) that listen to all the family history stories without rolling your eyes about another dead ancestor and for helping me identify unnamed people in old family photos, I appreciate it! I also appreciate all the help with the start up of the business from proofreading reports to voting on logos—you guys are the best.

To my Grand Aunts Louise and Mary-

Thanks for always helping me with our family history. Thank you to Aunt Louise for always sending me news clippings about our family in the mail, our late night Facebook chats and our adventures to New Hampshire in search of the Bourrett family. It was fun to debunk the family lore of a Great Grandfather having two families at that same time. You were so relieved! Miss you!

Aunt Mary, I never laughed so hard when I called looking for Uncle Tommy's information on the Army family and how you told me I would have to start looking for something French instead of Irish-which I always believed were the origins of the Army family. Hilarious.

To all my distant cousins

that I have picked up along the way, thank you for treating me like family from day one. I treasure the friendships that have developed and our fun adventures in genealogy.

Thank you Frank and Mary McKee

for meeting me, Jon and Gabby in Charlotte right when you got back from your cruise and for taking care of Gabby during her college years in NC. Best connection through Ancestry.com

Thank you Daniel McKeon, Anna Henderson and Melissa McKeon

for all the shared information and photos of our shared ancestors. What fun it was to figure out the McKeon family's origin. May we all get to Ireland to see the ruins of the family cottage.

Thank you to Don Currier

for all your help with the Currier branch and for taking on the lion's share of the project to replace our shared great grandparents' headstone and for meeting up with me in Andover, MA to do some research and exploring together-a favorite memory!

Thank you to my friends and coworkers that listen to my stories about my family history finds and for letting me dig through your family history, too, especially Amy and Holly. I see some more adventures of Flat Amy coming soon and perhaps she needs to start going on some cemetery trips.

Last but not least...

To Cindy, my co-worker, friend and as it turns out, cousin-thank you for always listening to my genealogy stories and encouraging me to pursue my dreams. It's wild how our family history played out over time and how we reconnected so many generations later!