Continuing Our History of the Third Generation

I am surprised by the length of time since my last post. I knew it had been a while, though three years is quite a pause. Due to a recent request for more stories I feel encouraged to 'get back to it'.
A few changes have made a difference in my perception of my family history, none the least losing close members of the generation immediately preceding my own: my father, Jim Kirkham in January of 2014, and his brother Thad Kirkham in October of 2012.
Their mother, Sylvia Gudmundsen is of the third generation, or Marie Jacobsen's grandchildren, and while much of what I know has been through record research and not personal stories it still seemed to knock the wind out of me to lose these links.
Should it have? Or should it have heightened the wind moving me onward, reminding me that this history is all the more important to me (and, I hope, to us)?
Here is what I propose to do for the third generation (subject to my human frailties and disorganization skills): having reported on George Peter Garff, who was the first child of a Second Generation Son, I will will next portray the first child of the next Second Gen, and then the first child of the next and so on. There were five sons who had children, with thirty-nine children born in the Third Generation. My grandmother was the second to last child of the fifth son and I fear I would never get to her if I took this generation in birth sequence!
With a plan now, I will commence soon with Carl Christian Garff, Erma Rosena Garff, Abel Gudmund Gudmundsen and Isaac Ray Gudmundsen.
I return to this project with my apologies to you all for the delay; I wish you continued success in your lives as you each unfold our story for future generations. And recommit myself to my credo that a correct record is the best record, so please feel free to give input and feedback as needed (and I will try not to be too needy!).