| Hello cousins. Happy New Year, and welcome to your brand new family website with modern features the old style software did not have. There are even photos of some of our ancestors and our contemporaries too - those who have sent me a digital image. There are intelligent links everywhere and highlighted names that take you here and "there", and back again with just a click. It will be a welcome relief for those of you who tried to navigate the old style website. Try it - you will like it! Take some time and explore the various new pages and reports in this new program and have fun going back in history - YOUR history. You will see that some cousins have taken my suggestion to write a little short story about various members of their immmediate family, and how real those people become as we read a true and heartfelt remembrance by a loved one. If you want to add any short story for any family member, send it to me. I will put it on the website as you write it - or edit it for you if you don't like to punctuate or even capitalize. Go ahead - it is so much fun - and your chosen family members will appreciate it so much that you will be able to feel their smiles no matter where they may be. Our ancestors' spirits are surely pleased, and also proud to be following along, over our shoulders, with us as we explore - as we remember their names, their accomplishments and enjoyments - and imagine how they lived and loved - and did they ever! Many of your ancestors were "hot tickets" as they say up North. And you are just like them I bet. Darnell -Randolph - and Schulkers history is filled with famous ancestry from President Thomas Jefferson, and The Randolph's of Turkey Island, VA; to Aaron Darnell, a revolutionary soldier who later helped found Frankfort, KY; and Robert Franc Schulkers - famous and loveable author of Seckatary Hawkins novels in the 1920's and 1930's; to the Railey's, the family of Sir Walter Raleigh; and so many high ranking provincial officials and successful planters; a Colonial Knight; the first President of the Continental Congress; a U.S. Attorney gGneral and Secretary of State; three Governors of Virginia; and a Confederate Secretary of War. John Marshall, and General Robert E. Lee were Randolph family as you may know. Pocahontas and John Rolfe were ancestors too. The family reached the peak of its power and wealth in the Revolutionary era, entered a period of gradual decline climaxed by the Civil War, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, regained a degree of fame in such diverse fields as religion, literature, and engineering. We are looking hard for the Holly's and Diehl's from my Mom's family branch and have new hope since we can finally add them to the big family tree here on the internet. Now start by clicking on the SURNAME list, or the INDEX list, and then click on your surname and find where you are in this report. Confirm everything is correct and the way you want it, then tell me of any changes you want - do it right now while you are thinking of it. Don't wait - email me at zr1randy@aol.com right now while you are thinking of it. Most family trees stay incomplete because the twigs and branches don't remember to take the time to make small corrections and additions that bring bigger life to the whole tree. Remember the good old slogan from Grandpa Schulkers - "A quitter never wins and a Winner never quits". Maybe you have a digital photo you would like published of one of your favorite ancestors - send it to me digitally or snail-mail. Then click through all the BLUE items below. The family BOOK is different from the style you see when you click a name on the Surname or Index groups, but has the same info without the photos. Hope you enjoy it and tell all your cousins who have not seen it lately. Have fun! Yours fair & square, Randy |
The Darnell; Randolph; Schulkers Families
Updated July 1, 2006 |
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