Terry L. Karkos, Author at MyCousins

September 26, 2017

Going to get my Karkos Kronicles genealogy site back online this year and get a printer so I can get the trees out to those who have asked for them. The site went down when I got medically retired. I had the site on a web server from my employer. Thankfully, I have backup copies of everything.

One of the old pics from my dad’s mom’s collection of family photos I received after dad’s father passed away…August 1963, me at left getting beamed up to the Enterprise, Dad’s father Francis “Fat” Karkos holding my sister Laurie Karkos, his wife Barbara (Nana) Karkos holding my brother Jeffrey, my mom, and Dad holding my brother Larry (Kathy Karkos). – Terry L. Karkos

October 15, 2018

I was flipping through my genealogy program last night and realized with a shock that I hadn’t put my Mom’s adopted mother’s death date, nor my Mom’s death date in it. And, of course, I can’t find her adopted mom’s obit online or her husband’s, but I know I have the newspaper ones somewhere in my genealogy stuff.

For 7 years straight, I did my family’s genealogy research in between work and volunteer work. Since then, I’ve been doing it off and on and still finding stuff I didn’t have or stuff from cousins I met via Facebook (I’ve really got to get my Karkos Kronicles back online.). And all I started with were memories of my Dad.

For instance, my wife’s mother’s ancestors came from Russia, and my Dad’s ancestors from far eastern Slovakia, near Russia. Fate or coincidence? I didn’t marry until I was 41. It was her second marriage.

I know we all go back to Adam and Eve, but I’m more interested in filling in the gaps and learning about our stories and history. Still, Google has the current world population at 7.2 billion. That’s A LOT of sex since Adam and Eve.

Terry L. Karkos