Welcome! Risher, Ramshay, Harding, and Newcomb

Welcome to my genealogy blog! I'm hoping to connect with other researchers on my family history. I've seen some of my ancestors' info re-posted in numerous places online, but with different name spellings, dates, places, etc. and I want to find out which is correct. I also would love to do some descendancy research and find out who on earth I'm related to!
I have a friend who works in an LDS Family History Center every Tuesday night, and she's invited me to come in when she's there and we can work on my family tree. I took her up on that, and the first time I went in she shared chocolate with me and found my great-great-grandmother that I'd been looking for for about ten years. I was hooked!
This blog was her idea, as well. I can keep up with what information I'm working on, here. I really only get a chance to work on it every Tuesday night, so writing down what we work on when I'm there will help me jump right back in when I go back in another week (two weeks, this time, since the Family History Center will be closed for Thanksgiving next week).

So! Last night we worked on cleaning up and organizing my family history, both online and on paper. I brought in a portable file organizer, all my disorganized papers, and chocolate. And my baby and 3-year-old! 3-year-old was asleep in the car when I got there, and by the grace of God he stayed asleep when I carried him in. I laid him on the floor and he slept for about 45 minutes; one worker said my ancestors were soothing him to keep him asleep so I could find them! My baby was easy, too, even slept in a worker's arms while I worked.
While cleaning up my family tree, my friend found two unnamed children of Ambrose Harding (1799-1881) and Amelia Newcomb (1799-1886). This couple were married and started their family in Kentucky, then emigrated to Texas. We have record of 5 of their children: Elizabeth, Amelia, Benjamin F. (my ancestor), F. M., and Spicy A. According to a couple of cousins of mine, they had two more children, but we don't have their names, places or years of birth or death. Did they even exist? Were they babies who died at or soon after birth? Or did they grow, marry, move away, and leave no trace?
Then we started looking for the parents of Ethel Marie Ramshay, 1913-1979. She was supposedly born in Frisco, TX, but I can't find record of her anywhere! She was my paternal grandpa's mother, and I know she still has some living children and grandchildren. I need to get in touch with them.

Last week we looked for my adoptive grandpa's parents. His name was John T. Risher, and he adopted my mom when he married her mom. He was born in Columbia county, AR, in 1935. We couldn't find any information online, so I called my Granny and asked her. She didn't know offhand who his parents were, but she said she may have his birth certificate in a lockbox at her bank, or my uncle may have it. Now that I think about it, perhaps the marriage record would have his parents' names on it. They married in 1955..... so next time I go I'll look for that. It'll be good to have the marriage record even if we do find the birth certificate.

So, that's what I've gotten done so far. I'm excited to be working on my family history again!