I am blessed to be a young grandma (my beautiful identical twin daughters have 6 children between them - 3 each). I am married to an awesome man, Roderick Simons, who supports my family history addiction. We live in Northern Virginia.

I maintain a very large public tree at Ancestry; my member name there is katbowen1. I am particularly interested in BOWEN (Wales to US, VA), DRURY (England to MD, esp AA Co), PAYNE (John Payne of 1600s to SE VA), DONEGAN (west Co Cork Ireland to NY to Washington, DC), HURLEY and related line of HEALEY/HEALY in Kilgarvan area of Co. Kerry Ireland. Other surnames include VA families going back to to 1600s & 1700s: BLADEN, MASON, CRIGLER*, EVERHART. NETHERS, BLANKENBAKER*, HUFFMAN*, UTZ*, PERRY, TYLER, HUME, FAULCONER/FAULKNER...in MD (and many to DC) same time periods to present: POORE, BOOTH, WETZEL, KING, YOST, IJAMS, PLUMMER, STOCKETT, and CHILDS. CHENEY

I am blessed to be a young grandma (my beautiful identical twin daughters have 6 children between them - 3 each). I am married to an awesome man, Roderick Simons, who supports my family history addiction. We live in Northern Virginia.

I maintain a very large public tree at Ancestry; my member name there is katbowen1. I am particularly interested in BOWEN (Wales to US, VA), DRURY (England to MD, esp AA Co), PAYNE (John Payne of 1600s to SE VA), DONEGAN (west Co Cork Ireland to NY to Washington, DC), HURLEY and related line of HEALEY/HEALY in Kilgarvan area of Co. Kerry Ireland. Other surnames include VA families going back to to 1600s & 1700s: BLADEN, MASON, CRIGLER*, EVERHART. NETHERS, BLANKENBAKER*, HUFFMAN*, UTZ*, PERRY, TYLER, HUME, FAULCONER/FAULKNER...in MD (and many to DC) same time periods to present: POORE, BOOTH, WETZEL, KING, YOST, IJAMS, PLUMMER, STOCKETT, and CHILDS. CHENEY