Ancestral TimesOur Ancestors in the News
We are happy you dropped in! We hope you find common ancestors in our 'labor of love'. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on 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.
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Family Reunion for our huge Smith family is coming up! Mark your
calendar now for June 28-30. Where is the place located? Who is
the contact person? What do we need to bring? Add important information
here about this fabulous event.
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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.
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family. The following text is filler text. In hac habitasse platea
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Add information here about your ancestor listed to the right.
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family. The following text is filler text. In hac habitasse platea
dictumst. Maecenas velit tellus, imperdiet quis lacus.
Add information here about your ancestor listed to the right.
You can write a short paragraph about your ancestor and his or her
family. The following text is filler text. In hac habitasse platea
dictumst. Maecenas velit tellus, imperdiet quis lacus.
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family. The following text is filler text. In hac habitasse platea
dictumst. Maecenas velit tellus, imperdiet quis lacus.
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.
"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.
This section is used as a spotlight section.
Charlotte Turner
Charlotte and her brother Sean immigrated from Ireland with their parents in the mid 1890's. Both of their parents died on the voyage so they lived with their mother's sister. Charlotte married John Jones in 1910.
Fred Smith
Fred was one of the first people buried in Greenwood Cemetery. This cemetery is one of the oldest in the city. Many of our family members are buried there as early at 1868. Add information here about this cemetery. Where is the place located? Who lived there? What other details are interesting?
Robert Boudreaux
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Susan Melancon
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Danielle Burton
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Samuel Johnson
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