Phillip Wayne Douglas Sr (September 1, 1943 - May 24, 2011)Mr. Phillip Wayne Douglas, Sr., 67, of Lakeview, North Carolina died peacefully on May 24, 2011, at his home.

A funeral service was held at Cox Memorial Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 4 p.m. with the Rev. Darrell Garner officiating. Burial followed at Yates-Thaggard Cemetery.

Mr. Douglas was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina and worked as a supervisor at Pride Trimble and was the husband of Mary Garner for 29 years. He was a kind and loving man and he will be greatly missed. He is the son of Mildred Lynn Bell of Homosassa, Fl., and the Late James Pryor Douglas, Sr.

Cannon roared today in Hartford, Conn., to mark the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the bloody four-year war, The Hartford Courant reports, noting that 5,354 Connecticut men died in the conflict.

The mortar round on a grassy point near Fort Johnson in South Carolina triggered a bombardment of cannons lining the harbor toward Fort Sumter, which Union troops held April 12, 1861.

A "star shell" was also fired into the sky today, signaling re-enactors who have been encamped in the Charleston area to begin reliving the attack that started the conflict.

William Lloyd Taylor, 82, of Homosassa, FL, died Thursday, March 24, 2011, at his home.

A Native American Creek Indian, he was born Dec. 4, 1928, in Stockton, AL, to the late Sam and Vivian (Thompson) Taylor.

After 20 years of service with the U.S. Air Force, he retired as Tech Sgt., and served with the Special Operations Group and was a veteran of Vietnam.

He was a member of American Legion Post No 155 and life member of VFW Post 8189.

William was preceded in death by his stepson, James P. Douglas, and brother, Cecil G. Taylor.

What is going to happen to your genealogy research when you are gone? This is not a subject most of us want to think about. However, it is something for which all genealogists should take time to plan.

Genealogists spend a considerable amount of time and money tracing their family. Most people do not think to include their research in an estate plan, but that is where it belongs. It is an invaluable gift to your children, grandchildren and your future descendants.

The genetic tests that have revolutionized the identification and treatment of many illnesses can also unearth family secrets like incest, sparking an ethical discussion in the medical community over how these inadvertent findings should be handled.

At Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, sophisticated DNA analyses used to diagnose such disabilities as birth defects, epilepsy or developmental delays revealed that in some children, about 25 percent of genetic material inherited from their mother was the same as material inherited from their father.