My Favorite Recipes: Meet Carolyn Arnett, Colfax

Picture an hourglass. You are the narrow point in the middle. One side is all your ancestors and the other is all your descendants. This is the example Carolyn Arnett would start with when teaching genealogy which she has done for more than 20 years.

At 80 years old, Carolyn has eight children, three step-children, 34 grandchildren and 160 great-grandchildren (and counting); she sees both sides of her hourglass expanding.

"Family is the most important thing to me. And all my ancestors are a piece of me and I want to know about them," she said.

Carolyn first started doing genealogy in 1972. She...