Searching for Ancestors
We are happy that you dropped in! We have quite a few names in our family tree. We'd love to have your information for the site.
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I am YOUR NAME, Coordinator for this site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. This template has a matching TNG template. You can place your entire family tree online with TNG!
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of your roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in XXX and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put fleshon their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen.
The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
You can add information here about the person above. You can write about who the person married, where they lived and what they did that was unusual. Remember to keep it brief.
You can add information here about the person above. You can write about who the person married, where they lived and what they did that was unusual. Remember to keep it brief.
You can add information here about the person above. You can write about who the person married, where they lived and what they did that was unusual. Remember to keep it brief.
You can add information here about the person above. You can write about who the person married, where they lived and what they did that was unusual. Remember to keep it brief.
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
You can use this area to place information about family or places. Just add them in!
Arcement
Boudreaux
Champagne
Frady
Hawthorne
Hughes
Leblanc
Melancon
Perdue
Young
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