User:Mettenburns

Hi! I'm Peter Burns of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA. My username "Mettenburns" is a mashup of my last name and my wife's, Mettenburg. I'm researching several lines in my family (Burns, McCurdy, Mackley, Roberts, Moffett, Chisum, Rushing, Staley, and others, mostly from the Deep South) and in my wife's family (Mettenburg, Martin, Raus, Jaeckel, Collister, Harkness, Cowgill, and Still, mostly from the Midwest).

I believe most of my ancestors were Scots-Irish, and my wife's were either Irish/Scottish or German.

Franklin County, Kansas, is our neighbor to the south, and my wife's family has lots of history there and here in Douglas County, especially in the Martin, Cowgill, and Still families. I work with the Franklin County Genealogical Society and enjoy learning more about Kansas history.