Kienow Family History and Heritage

This has been passed along from a family history and research site, thanks to my dad -

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot - they "didnt have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have finally discovered the conflict in the Family Trees module and made the appropriate changes - so the family trees are now available again. I am also picking the development of the module again and hope to have some new improvements available soon.

Thanks for all your patience!

Recent changes to KienowFamily.org have caused some unexpected side effects and the family tree area will be offline until I have resolved those problems.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but such is the life of software updates!

Well, 2008 is coming to a close - time to reflect on what the past 12 months have brought...

For our family, there was a new job, a trip to Mexico, a high school graduation, a new grandson, the loss of a great-uncle - along with all the day-in-day-out things. All-in-all, pretty normal, but extraordinary stuff.