The Ancients Speak !

NEW Added Feature : The Olde Guest Column

This is where our long-past line of Ancestors will appear with stories of their lives and communities. Yes, they will be telling it like it was.

There is a new link on the right that will always take you there for the latest.

In our search for family history, once we get past Gramma's stories of her childhood, we find ourselves building whole lives around a handful of dates and facts, like a baptism record, a marriage date, and a headstone. It's a mountain of difficulty to combine sterile facts with what little we know of the historical context, in order to reconstruct what we hope are our ancestors' very biographies. We're reduced to digging for slips of paper, so really, most genealogical research is as human as you can imagine an electronic card catalog to be. Good luck. Finding your great-grandfather's address on a WWI draft card is exciting, but it doesn't tell you much about his Saturday afternoons.

So this could be fun.
Don