Fred Smith Family
Fred Smith
Born 1862
Married Ellie Capon
Had 5 children: Susan, John, Steve, Frank, Lilly
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Our Family's Journey Through Time
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The ChosenWe are the chosen. 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.
Married Ellie Capon
Had 5 children: Susan, John, Steve, Frank, Lilly
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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. "\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.
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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.
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We've been researching
this family name for over 30 years. I found lots of information at the
State Archives, but once the internet exploded with genealogy, many
more doors have been opened for me to research.
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