While growing up I was never introduced to our family roots. We just carried on as a family through thick and thin but never worried about where we came from. I knew my mom was from Tennessee and my dad was from Kansas. I was born in California. That was it!
It wasn't until recently that I've learned so much more about our family history. I think a few of my relatives caught the ancestry bug and it just filtered on down through the family. Now as I start on my journey of ancestors I'm going to tell you about a few of mine that I've found as I find them. It seems we have a rich family history in Tennessee and Virginia. Our family has fought in both the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. We have fought in England and other areas of the world.
I don't know if you will follow this blog, but if you do I hope that you share if you find any relation to my kin. It would be rather fun!
I'm not sure if I will do this chronologically or just post information as I find it. Probably the latter. It would be impossible to do it on a timely basis if I relied on just information that may or may not be important or real. In fact, the database I have is from a friend of my sister so I don't even know how accurate it is! I know that my mother's tree is pretty accurate and I have found a lot of information on my dad's side based on the starting of that tree, but he has passed and I barely even know any of my relatives on his side. Where to start? Maybe I'll buy a book off of amazon to get started? Get a DNA test?
I'll just keep trying and maybe you can help out, too :)
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