| My Mother and Aunt started this research many years ago. In the beginning when they would talk about it I would just roll my eyes and think to myself "Here they go again". I didn't think anything could be more boring. Needless to say as I got older and had a family of my own I began to get interested. Now I am "HOOKED" as they say. I now am the one that make people roll their eyes. As my research grows so do my surnames and nationalities.Irish, English, French, Italian, German, Scottish, and of course that elusive Indian everyone has in their family. My ancestors fought in every war since this country began. They imigrated to new lands and left homes and families behind to build this great country. I am very proud of where I came from. They were all hard working God fearing people. My Surnames My Husband's Line MIDDLETON NICHOLS GLOVER FRANKS BYNUM HIGHFIELD PROVINCE BUSBY HELTON SPRADLIN GIDLEY SMITH My Line ROBERTS RUNION HALLIBURTON LONGBOTTOM/BOTTOMS SHERRILL/SHERWILL/SHERWELL MURPHY HARRIS PALMER GOZA PHELAN REYNOLDS BLEDSOE SMITH DANIEL JAMES RANKIN TOWNSEND BOWLBY AND OTHERS We Are the Chosen My feelings are in each family we are 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. To me, 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. 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 am I and why do 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 they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. 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 them and they are us. 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 their 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 put flesh on the bones. [Author Unknown] If You Could See Your Ancestors A Poem by Nellie Winslow Simmons Randall If you could see your ancestors All standing in a row, Would you be proud of them or not? Or don't you really know? Some strange discoveries are made In climbing family trees. And some of them, you know, Do not particularly please. If you could see your ancestors All standing in a row, There might be some of them perhaps You shouldn't care to know. But here's another question Which requires a different view - If you could meet your ancestors Would they be proud of you? February 2002 Since adding my family to the internet I have met many new and very helpful people. They have given me corrections and also new information. Fee |
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