I have been sitting here thinking about my days. Thinking about what they consist of, what I would like to have them consist of, and what, if anything, I can do about that.
If you think that last part is a good case of futility, you may be right. 
After having a shock about my health earlier this year, last month I had added to that another shock, and I do mean shock, about an unexpected enormous bill for a needless test to determine that I definitely did not have the problem that the test would have proven existed. Have I made that muddled enough?
Fortunately, I was willing to let the Lord take it in hand and he has blessed me with people who are compassionate and helpful in getting things sorted out. He is good about that.
So, I have had plenty of time this past week to consider my time and how to spend it. I have now resolved - once again - that I will be more consistent in getting my family information on-line. That's on Find a Grave and on Ancestry. I am using my nieces' account to put her Dad's side of the family into outer-space. She is occasionally working on her Mother's side of the family.
Yesterday I spent 7 hours, mostly straight through (cup of tea, pit stop, cup of tea, pit stop) on the Dailey line. My computer says I have 193 of them in my file.
That's a reduced file. Once upon a time I had more than 11,000 individuals that were proven connected through blood or marriage or maybe even wishful thinking. I condensed many files by putting descendants of some sidelines into a text file under the name of the parents. It worked to leave just over 4,000 individuals. That's the number of people I am working with now.
Yesterday was a good day. I found what I had forgotten when I laid aside my regular trips into the past. I enjoy the polishing, the searching, the finding of family members, and enjoy corresponding with people about their families. That part of the process became lost when everything became more automated with so many records on-line. Having contact with real people makes the research more real.
Here's where my Daileys come into my family. My Dad is a Simmons, his father is a Simmons, his father is a Simmons, his mother is a Dailey. And so it moves back to the 1700s.
I have deleted from my file some very early Dailey names for which people have not offered proof of the relationship, and not really even of their existence. My policy is to have at least 2 records for each person in my file - that prove of their existence and relationship. Sometimes that's all that I can find, but at least it shows proof.
Paternal Ancestry
Chart of Juliet DAILEY
5-James DAILEY, b 1752, d 1825
4-John DAILEY, b abt 1775, d bet 19 March 1840 - 28 July 1843
5-Margaret [STANDFORD], b 1756 January
12, d 1812
3-Vincent DAILEY, b 1798 May 14, d 1868 August 7
4-Nancy [CARPENTER], b abt 1775, d 1835
September
2-William DAILEY, b 1823 September 1, d 1899 February 12
4-Thomas McKEE, b abt 1772, d 1861 March
4
3-Margaret McKEE, b 1803 March 6, d 1865
May 21
4-Mary [---], b abt 1784, d bef 1860
1-Juliet DAILEY, b calc 1850 July, d 1869 April
20
William
married
2-Charlotte FARNSWORTH, b 1829
September 19, d 1916 January 5
This chart makes it seem that there is a smal-lish Dailey family with only 100 years separating the early and late generations, but it's the Descendants that are in great quantity.
I don't have a photo of Juliet, but do have two of William and Charlotte, posted elsewhere on this blog and repeated here.
William and Charlotte (Farnsworth) Dailey
William and Charlotte (Farnsworth) Dailey and their surviving children
