Nuts and Such, shook from the family tree of Thomas J. Akehurst is an attempt to share a portion of my work and pure enjoyment of combining several of my hobbies and interests. I,'ve never been a person who needed to find something to fill his day. Due to several surgeries, arthritis and a condition called Narcolespy I have more bad days then good, so working on family history, working with thousands of pictures keeps me busy and from go-to self potty parties. My passion for photography started in the earlier 80,s, but l know it was my Grandfather Arthur Akehurst where I got the shuttler bug. I minor in history in College and one of Nick names growing up was detective. In 1989 I started the wonderful world of genealogy. Over the next quarter of a century John have spent hours and hours go to cemmeteries, libRaries, hall of records, museums, historical societies, the library of Congress and many other places. usually with my family in till I have showed up at strangers homes, churches, meet people at gas stations, diners and other places. The invention ok the internet has been amazing, you can go back in history when your backs and legs will not allow you to go in next room let alone across the country or across the pond. With this new blog I will try to share some of my finds. while shaking my family tree all kinds of nuts, thieves, well at least a pig thieves or two, ghost, witches, drunk generals, kings and novelty along with their mistresses or cousin or both, have fell from the tree. I now know why I have had 2 close calls while canoeing, my family seem to always take t h e interesting path once climb in to a boat or ship. not always legally or fully understand n ding the concept of staying in the ship with land no where to been seen. my 8th great grandfather had his own ship back in the mid sixteen hundred. One fine New England day he and his crew climb aboard and headed to England with a side trip to obtain some spices in the Carribean never to be seen again. As I continue to shake that tree moonshine stills along with shootouts fall out, civil war hero,s fighting for both sides, my wife's side had two brothers around ten or so sold Apple's and other produce along the road parrell to the m
