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Thanks Sveenee! I take that as a high compliment. I'd say the Bible book still wins for most annoying to my wife. In the book, I talk about how Leviticus says men should not touch women during their time of month, because women are impure. But if you take Leviticus literally, you should not sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has sat, because the seat is then impure. My wife found that offensive and sat in every seat in our apartment and I had to stand for the year. So she does find ways to get back at me.

I haven't had a bunch of people hitting me up for loans, thank God. But I have found that being related to everyone on earth is very helpful as a social network. For the book, I wanted to interview a patriarch of a notable family, and I settled on George H.W. Bush. His publicist said the president wasn't doing any interviews. But I explained to her that I'm the president's distant cousin, or at least cousin through marriage, and showed her how. She said, "Well, for a cousin, I guess we can make it work." The next week I was on a plane to Houston to have lunch with him.

I'm writing a book where I take one of my daily joys -- my morning cup of coffee -- and try to thank every single person who made it possible. I went to Columbia and thanked the bean farmers. And also the truckers, the logo designers, the guys who made the tires for the truck, who got the rubber for the tires, etc. It's meant to show that there are thousands of people involved in every little thing we do.

Hey treeznstuff. Here's a link to the appendix to my book which has lots of tips. Hope it helps. It's cowritten by professional genealogist Eowyn Langholf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TBuGJl_zRMdHJMUUlxUjFTVkxBMERWXy04eXVITGw4bDRr/view?usp=sharing

Ha! Bless you eatandread