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The exceptionally talented Rock group Family Tree have released their CD entitled Miss Butters. I am very confident and happy to announce that I believe Family Tree fans, and Rock fans alike will be pleased with this one. With the release of Miss Butters their artistic excellence is on full display as they have once again delivered a brilliant collection of tracks that could very well be their best work to date.

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

Miss Butters has a nicely varied, mix of 17 tracks that are very well written and brilliantly performed songs by these clearly superb musicians. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are their own personal experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions of love, heartbreak, pain, failed relationships and unattainable romance. They’re all here.

Listen and I think you’ll agree that the song choices are excellent, the production is outstanding and Family Tree is clearly a group that is in top form.

While the entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 2 – Melancholy Vaudeville Man, track 8 – Slipping Thru My Fingers, and track 17 – He Spins Around

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 – Birthday Dirgeday. Outstanding!

Miss Butters Release Notes:

Family Tree originally released Miss Butters on May 15, 2007 on the Rev-Ola label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Birthday Dirgeday 2. Melancholy Vaudeville Man 3. Any Other Baby 4. Sideshow 5. Mrs. Mcpheeny Has Flu In Her Chest And Has Needed A Rest For So Long 6. Butters Lament 7. Simple Life 8. Slipping Thru My Fingers 9. Nine To Three 10. Lesson Book Life 11. Nickelodeon Music 12. Miss Butters 13. Underture, The 14. Keeping A Secret 15. Do You Have The Time 16. She Had To Fly 17. He Spins Around

HERE’S a suggested checklist for collating key facts about each branch of your family tree so that posterity will have something to thank you for!

While genealogy is the study of the genetic make-up of your pedigree, it is only by piecing together the biographies of your ancestors that you can make sense of who they were.

At Garrison Communications Family History Research Services we like to think the following headers can often help when conducting an interview with a favourite rellie:

Youthful memories – School days recounted; adventures, accidents, amusing incidents, thoughts, problems, friends, parties, vacations, travels, sports, hobbies, clubs (school, civic, etc.), scouting (activities, merit badges, etc.), parental discipline, studies, books read, movies that influenced you, religious affiliations and activities, etc.

High School and College – Activities (sports, clubs, parties, social life, etc.), hobbies, parttime jobs, most valuable or enjoyable classes, teachers, friends, scholarships, courses of study, honours won, graduation, diplomas or certificates received, etc. (Include appropriate pictures.)

Military service – Travels, promotions, experiences, mates, religious experiences, battles, wounds, dates of service, schooling, training, health, citations, etc. (Include pictures – don’t forget army letters which were preserved.)

Courtship and marriage When and how you met your companion, interesting events, dating activities (dances, parties, movies, etc.), problems; proposal (date and circumstances); engagement, planning, preparations; marriage date, place, by whom married; honeymoon, travels, parents of mate, etc. (Include pictures.)

Occupation(s) – Type of work, responsibilities, promotions, dates of services, etc.

Parenthood – Full name and particulars of each child, experiences in rearing your family (pleasurable, humorous, tragic, sickness, disappointments, etc.)

Public and political life – Appointments, positions held, work in clubs, civic activities, etc. (Give dates, places, and appropriate pictures.)

Special achievements or activities – Publications, inventions, vocations, handiwork, tangible treasures, music, drama, degrees, honours, church positions, travels, difficult problems overcome.

Future plans and ambitions – Things you most desire to accomplish (in business or vocation, in home life, in religious or volunteer service, etc.). A message to your posterity.

I will try to give you some basic tips to get you started but you must remember that you need to research a lot unless there’s already some kind of family tree created by some of your ancestors.

If you are serious, invest on a family tree software that will organize all the information you find. Paperwork may become overwhelming as you will notice.

You will need a lot of paper.

Use a single sheet of paper for every person/ancestor in your family. Then make small family groups of ancestors. You will write information you find for every person in the single piece of paper that belongs to that person. And you will write a summary of the information from all persons who belong to a family group to the sheet of paper that belongs to a certain family group. For example for your family group (e.g. you, your spouse and your 3 children), use 6 sheets of paper one for every member of the family and one for the family group (5 members and 1 family group).

In the ancestor sheet of paper you will write all kinds of information you find about that particular person: Date Born, Birthplace, Marriage Date, Date of Death, Father’s Name, Mother’s Name, Spouse Name and all other information you decide is worth mentioning in the family tree.

In the family group sheet of paper you will write a summary of the information you have gathered from all persons who belong to that family group: Number of members, Husband, Wife, Children and other kind of information you might find and want to include.

Now it’s time to work and research. Start with yourself and your family. Gather information from your parents and their children. Then your grandparents and their children. Remember to keep track of the family groups and the sheets of paper that belong to each ancestor. As you go back in time you may need to contact other relatives, family friends or even researchers. Ask them to help you fill the information on your sheets of paper. Tell them you are creating a family tree for your entire family.

It’s a good idea to keep a family tree log of your actions. For example when you find a birth certificate update your family tree log writing the date that you found that death certificate and the person that death certificate belongs to.

Check out if there’s already someone who has created a family tree for a certain family group. Use that information to save time but verify if the information you find is correct. Look for wedding books, divorce papers, birth or death certificates, funeral cards, awards, diplomas, school books, employment records, military records, medical records and anything that you might find useful. You can obtain a lot of information from such papers like dates, ages, parents, witnesses etc. If you are really motivated and determined to create a family tree, this journey to the past will be fascinating.

And now let’s move on to the fun part. After you have gathered all the information you need, it’s time to design your family tree. You may want to use paper and fill the information so that it is organized and easy to access. But I’m sure after all that paperwork you will definitely need help from a family tree software that will save you a lot of time.