About

Merry Soyck-Doring and her husband, Ray Doring, divide their time seasonally between Cameron, Wisconsin, and Lakeland, Florida. Merry enjoys travel, quilting, reading, and gardening. Although she has been passionate about genealogy research for years, this is her first attempt at writing about her family.

Merry's career in training and development spanned three decades in the financial services industry followed by 15 years with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, where she worked in youth ministry, outdoor ministry and synod office administration.

Ray and Merry's blended family has given them the privilege of parenting, nurturing, and loving four amazing adult children, Matthew Doring, David Soyck, Amy (Soyck) Kesling, and Amir Babayev, and four delightful grandchildren, as well as several dogs and cats.