Welcome to All My Cousins: A Family History Project. This blog is intended to be used as a tool to research, record and preserve the history of our family.

My inspiration to start this blog was born from a recent visit with my grandmother Margret Westphalen. I am currently working on a biographical novel of her life. I thought that inviting our family and friends and all who know and love her to visit this blog and share their stories and memories would be a great way to gather the information I need to continue working on this project.

My hope is that All My Cousins will go beyond my latest writing project. Not only would I like share information on the lives our loved ones who are no longer with us but I would like to work on building stronger relationships among the living generations of our family. I would like to invite the Warrens, the Mannings, the Lauberts, the Angermeiers, the Golliglees and all my relations to contribute to this site. Share a memory, plan a reunion or just drop in to say hello.

In the coming months you will find more features and organization to the site. Each area of research will be divided into projects and have a tab located at the top of the page. We will start with Project M, M stands for Margret. If you would like me to start another project let me know. For now leave a message and come back soon to All My Cousins: A Family History Project.