Michael Lee Kohus 1947-
Michael L Kohus Sr. 1947-
I'm smiling in the photo but be assured, I'm really, really cold.
The Cog Train, to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado (circa2007)
So, you've found my website among the billions of other websites on the internet. That either means you were searching the internet and misspelled the word Geology as Genealogy, or you are here on purpose. If that be the case, we must share an interest in genealogy, and if lucky, we may even share some common ancestors. I don't know exactly when I started working on my family tree. I remember haunting the Cincinnati Library when I was a teenager and being amazed at finding my grandparents in early city directories. Those were the days when it took years to collect the same amount of genealogical information you can gather today with the aid of your home computer in just a couple of days. About 1996 the genealogy bug started to really bite, and like most my interests in life go, it soon turned into a passion before becoming a flat-out obsession. I am lucky to have an understanding wife who didn't mind me spending a few thousand hours in libraries, LDS Family Research centers, swapping information with other similarly obsessed persons via the internet and staying up half the night trying to read the entire internet.
One day recently I realized that I had collected a fair amount of information on my family's past, satisfying a lot of curiosity but of course, I could never gather enough information to tell as complete a story as I would prefer. After all, isn't that what a good case of obsession is all about? Unfortunately there will always be another clue somewhere and it's probably just what I'm looking for to complete more of the puzzle. I thought about what to do with all the information I had collected and organized. Well........let's just say files I had collected and somewhat organized.... OK, I'll admit, my filing needs work, so let's just say I had a very large box of stuff but I kept it neatly in one 4-sided cardboard box. So anyway, what I am trying to say is: This website is a way to share with family what I have found, and hopefully, collect a few more pieces of the puzzle from anyone caring enough to share what they may know about our ancestors. This website is still under construction and it appears like that may be the case for quite awhile. Response from family and friends is keeping me quite busy, cataloging records, old photographs and stories, etc. Well, that's about it. If you have anything of interest, or see something interesting on the site, I have an e-mail link on several of the pages. Feel free to write. I hope you stick around and look at some of the info I've displayed herein. So anyway, if you're here by mistake and looking for the composition of rocks, go back and Google GEOLOGY not GENEALOGY. Glad you stopped by anyway..............................Mike