Mack's Shack

Winter $%^&

2009-01-31T11:06:00.000-08:00

Half way over !! This winter is a difficult one. Seems like each year gets harder.

2008-12-19T12:59:00.000-08:00

WINTER is not even here yet, and I am already tired of the snow. another blast and and i do not know if i can stand one more year.

Back Again!

2008-10-09T12:14:00.000-07:00

Between losing my XP Tablet to poor manufacturing. and needing to start over with a new Vista laptop. I have been away awhile, hope to get back in the groove.

I have answered many emails lately and never to get a response whether they received it. I am not yet sure what I am going to do about it.

Hope to be updating many files soon!

be seeing ya all around.

randy

New Grandchild

2007-09-14T08:04:00.000-07:00

Karah Jane Barry has arrived. She came the morning after the great storm of 2007 that wiped out electricity to over half of Kalamazoo. Over half of the stop lights in town were out and had to be treated as 4 way stop signs. Surprising that the trip to the hospital was fairly uneventful. I am glad about that.

The computer had to go in the shop for a few weeks also. Got it back. Not really fixed, just would not act up for them.

I am back. Time to get back to work on Genealogy now. Started back into scanning and typing in information. Many times I went through and entered just the direct line ancestors. Started filling in siblings and their info. Hope to fill in missing info as well. Keep checking back I will be updating the web soon including rootsweb.

Soon to be Grand-parents again

2007-07-21T11:03:00.000-07:00

As we celebrate our 33rd anniversary, we are preparing for our fifth grandchild. We have to be down to where our daughter Angel lives for one to two months to drive her to the hospital and watch her other two children. Her husband is 8-9 hrs away working in Wisconsin working. We have the motor home close to being ready. We will be at her home and she has very limited Internet, so changes may be real slow coming up.

I am trying to catch up before this time, along with working on finishing up other websites and the preparing the motor home. Hope to update Rootsweb soon, so for those waiting I do hope real soon. I have a lot of research "todo's", I hope to get to the library for one more trip before heading down.

Things at this time are hectic and up in the air, please bare with with me.

Thank You

Email Status

2007-07-03T13:04:00.000-07:00

I emailed some of you back today. If I did not answer your email today its not because it is not important. It takes me a while to answer each email. Many need research. Some emails take me hours to write a page back. I try to get back to all. Some emails do get pushed back. Genealogy is not the only thing I do. I develop sites for other companies and many times the time involved there is considerable, I try not to take on too many of these. If it has been a while since you wrote, please feel free to try again. I do hope to get back to all eventually.

Randy

New Mack Bios and Family Group Sheets

2007-07-03T04:30:00.000-07:00

I have entered new family group sheets and bios today. The bios were ocr recognized and include a direct line from John (1) Mack, Jonathan (2), Abijah (3), Daniel (4), William (5), Edward C (6), through Alva P (7).

New updates hopefully will be entered today.

Still need to update RootsWeb maybe today. Keep checking back.

Randy

New method of communicating with all of you.

2007-07-02T13:27:00.000-07:00

I have ran MacksShack.com for about 10 years now. After a disagreement with my last web site host I decided to seek a new way of doing things. Please be patient while I work on the site. Many users are already writing me wondering were the old went. It is gone!

We have posted the family tree in the past, we will be looking at that and try to find a efficient method of doing this, but for now I will be using RootsWeb.

I have found so much of my information posted on other sites, without even a credit to MacksShack. While many of you have and I appreciate that, many have copy from you and site your info as source.

Once again please be patient while I work out the details on the new site format.

Welcome, and I hope to be keeping this site up to date, I welcome questions, and hope to be working out a new Message Forum in the near future. Please stay posted.