A hard freeze is evident in this photo taken of ice that formed in a 5-gallon rainwater bucket off Cardinal Street in Homosassa, Florida.

The ice is about 1 inch thick, with an odd freeze formation that plunged further down into the bucket on the right-hand side of the photo.

This photo was taken at 10 a.m., when the ice had melted enough to lift the ice from the bucket.

For those interested in genealogy sources for North Carolina, there are two great web sources available.

The first source is at AccessGenealogy.com.

The site bills itself as a free genealogy resource, and although some info is free, other information requires a subscription. Still, it's worth checking out. Information available on the site covers topics from North Carolina cemetery records to military records from the Civil War and Revolutionary War.

The revolution in human genomics, still barely understood in the doctor’s office, is about to hit the street, at least for those able to pay about $1,000 for a glance at their entire genome.

The Icelandic company deCODE Genetics announced on Nov. 17, 2007 that it is now offering a service called deCODEme, which will assess a person’s genome for risk of common diseases, bodily traits like hair and eye color, and ancestral origins. Subscribers have to send in a scraping of cells from inside the cheek and a check for $985.

The Family Blog has been moved to a new, more secure, server, and is now available 24 hours a day.

This will provide more complete access for both members of the Douglas Family Tree, as well as other families that might want to join the site.

Regards,
Site Administrator

The site now has a more uniform menu structure, and everything that used to be on the front page can now be found in the menu structure under the appropriate category. Many of the items in the top menu now expand when clicked.

We did this so the site didn't just ramble on and on. The site was (metaphorically speaking) much like a file cabinet whose contents had been spilled all over the floor. Well, we picked up those "folders", put them in order, and properly filed everything back in the file cabinet.

We plan to add other functionality in the coming weeks.

Enjoy!