I inherited my passion for genealogy from my grandmother and I am proudly walking in her footsteps as I continue what she started. Things I have learned along the way: go back and re-evaluate. Something that wasn't relevant may now provide an important clue. Research connecting lines. By building a bigger picture, your relatives' photographs and stories could be hiding in the people that surrounded them. Ask questions to your online community. You will quickly find they can help and they share the same passion you do. Brush up on history and immerse yourself in their time period so you can not only read but feel what the world was like for them. Never give up. Even down the most difficult paths, the answer can literally be right around the corner when and where you least expect it!
Family lines: Stribling, French, Brewster, Jewett, Kincheloe, Davenport, Perkins, Sligh, Catlett, Grymes, Taliaferro, Miller, Neel, Gibson, Sloan, Yowell, Summer, Counts, Leavell, Whitaker, Bullen, Pemberton, Clark, Jones.

Dear ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

Author: Unknown

I inherited my passion for genealogy from my grandmother and I am proudly walking in her footsteps as I continue what she started. Things I have learned along the way: go back and re-evaluate. Something that wasn't relevant may now provide an important clue. Research connecting lines. By building a bigger picture, your relatives' photographs and stories could be hiding in the people that surrounded them. Ask questions to your online community. You will quickly find they can help and they share the same passion you do. Brush up on history and immerse yourself in their time period so you can not only read but feel what the world was like for them. Never give up. Even down the most difficult paths, the answer can literally be right around the corner when and where you least expect it!
Family lines: Stribling, French, Brewster, Jewett, Kincheloe, Davenport, Perkins, Sligh, Catlett, Grymes, Taliaferro, Miller, Neel, Gibson, Sloan, Yowell, Summer, Counts, Leavell, Whitaker, Bullen, Pemberton, Clark, Jones.

Dear ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

Author: Unknown