We are happy you dropped in! We hope you find common
ancestors in our "labor of love". We 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.
Spotlight on Family & Events
Sam & Sue Holley
This is text that goes with the Sam & Sue box [top left]. The following
text is filler text. Donec neque urna, ultrices et sagittis sit
amet, cursus ut quam. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
This is text that goes with the Family Reunion box [top right]. The following text is filler text. Donec neque urna, ultrices et sagittis sit amet, cursus ut quam. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
This is text that goes with Mom's birthday box [bottom left]. The following text is filler text. Donec neque urna, ultrices et sagittis sit amet, cursus ut quam. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
This is text that goes with the Countryside Walk box [bottom right]. The following text is filler text. Donec neque urna, ultrices et sagittis sit amet, cursus ut quam. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
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.
Family Pictures Carousel
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the carousel to advance the images. Click on the person to go to specific
family information.
Harry Smith
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be in this area. Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic
escorol.
Marla Jones
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be in this area. Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic
escorol.
S. Melancon
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Mary Smith
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escorol.
J.Boudreaux
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be in this area. Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic
escorol.
Louise Smith
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be in this area. Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic
escorol.
Fred Brown
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escorol.
Rob Robbins
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Restoring the memory
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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Template 264
Welcome to Template 264
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. 
