What's New?

In case you're an infrequent visitor to the Carey Family Album, we'll list here the most recent changes to it, or other family news. Of course, there will always be minor changes such as correction of typos, addition of photos, and other changes to the information within pages. We'll also post frequent new pictures of the grandchildren. We put the date of last update at the bottom of each page whenever we make any changes to it. Drop in often and check out your own favorite pages!

May 2012:

• One of my distant HELTON cousins got in touch with the Carey Family Album and shared with us:
  • photos of HELTON cousins
  • a story from horse-and-buggy days
• 4 May. A new addition to our extended family—Mirabelle CHENEY—is born in Bangkok, Thailand, to Colin and Anna CHENEY. She takes the prize for being born the farthest away of any of our relatives. Little Mirabelle is the first grandchild for my first cousin Marilyn and her husband Bryan, and a great-granddaughter of Pat and Fay PLUMB.
• Added a slide show of photos from Dave and Constance's wedding to our family celebrations page. These photos are just a few of several hundred which were taken that day and we may add some more when time permits.

April 2012:

• 23 April. We lost a very dear member of our family when aunt Alice (WALKER) POLLARD passed away today. We hope we can add a page in the near future to commemorate her life. Your contributions are welcome.
  
  
• The "interesting information about Constance's family" which we mentioned a few days ago is ready. It's a page for her grandfather, jazz trombonist Brad GOWANS! We'll be adding to his story as we learn more.
  
  
• 7 April. The 1940 census records have been available for five days now, so I go to ancestry.com, where I have a subscription, to take a look. I start in Santa Monica, where all my grandparents were living. I locate Charley and Alice WALKER's record without much difficulty, but it takes a little longer to find Sam CAREY's. So far, not much census data has been indexed and one has to know exactly where somebody lived to be able to find their records. Visit our 1940 census directory from time to time to see who I've found so far.
  
  
• 1 April is a happy day for the Carey family, as our son David marries Constance PATTERSON. Watch for wedding photos, as well as some interesting information about Constance's family.

March 2012:

• We've made some changes to uncle John WALKER's Tombstone scrapbook, including adding one of his photos which cousin Karen contributed.
• Added these 2008 articles from Monroe County Historian:
  1. The Sewards and Bloomington Bands
  2. Seward Portrait Restorations
• Added a page with a lot of information about the ancestors we have in common with sister-in-law Cathy (Allen) CAREY.

February 2012:

• A fellow researcher discovered our online transcription of Maggie Morris' Irvins-Doaks-Logans book and provided some valuable comments and corrections which we've added to our Carey Family Album.
• In a few weeks, the Census Bureau will release the results of the 1940 U. S. Census. We've made available, through our Census Central, data on our families from earlier censuses. We look forward to finding out what the census takers recorded about us in 1940, and have started a 1940 page which you can visit to see what is available so far.

January 2012:

• Added the biography of an interesting WINANS-related cousin, Isaac HUNTTING.

December 2011:

• With a lot of help from one of his descendants, created a page for a distant cousin who migrated from Ohio to Indiana, Luther CAREY, and his family.
• The annual Carey Christmas letter is ready!
• Made further revisions to Will and Mary CAREY's page.
• Our family lost a great man when uncle Fay PLUMB passed away 2 December 2011. We've started a tribute page to honor him, and hope that all who loved and remembered him will contribute their reminiscences and photos.

November 2011:

• Added information on his wife Mary to uncle Will CAREY's page. This is a work in progress!
• Added to our Seward bands page a 1940 article by uncle Fred SEWARD.

We'll limit this list to what we've done in the past six months. Be sure to use the table of contents to see a list of the principal pages in this Family Album, our search engine to look for a topic or key word, or if you're interested in somebody in particular, click on their surname, or the first letter of it, on the left.