Something old, something new

This picture should be important to most of you who will be reading this blog. I'm pretty sure none of you has ever seen it before. I hadn't either until about a week ago. Someone sent me an email that had something to do with genealogy and included an address I could click on for more information. So I did. And lo and behold, here was a picture of my great-grandfather, Shadrach Roundy with his wife, Betsy Quimby. I have a picture or two of Shadrach but had never seen this one of the two of them together.

I saved it into "My Pictures" and when I went to print it, it came out very small. Enlarging it only made matters worse. So I emailed the person who had this picture on her blog and asked her if, by any chance, she had the original which she could scan and send me via email. I seem to have better luck enlarging pictures I get as email attachments. She said she would be glad to as soon as she can find the photo album with the original picture in it. I'm hoping to hear from her soon.

Meanwhile, she told me about a new book being written on Shadrach's life, which should be coming out soon. I'll post more details if and when I hear more.

For those few who may not know the family connection, it goes like this:

Shadrach Roundy, oldest member of the 1847 Brigham Young company; one of the four who entered the Salt Lake Valley a couplel of days before Brigham and the rest of the company did.

Shadrach and Betsy had several children, one of whom was Jared Roundy. Jared's fourth (and last) wife was Ellen White.

Jared and Ellen had four children, one of whom was my mother, Julia Roundy Hiatt.

And you all know "the rest of the story." Shadrach is to me what I am to our fourteen great-grandchildren. Shadrach seems like "ancient history" to me. No doubt I will seem the same to others one day.

Stay tuned. At least I'm learning how to put pictures and text in the same blog.