I am a born and raised Alaskan, married a Texas homeboy and moved south. My mother is a native Pennsylvanian and my dad is a native Oregonian. I started working on a family tree 20 years ago, way before computers and the worldwide web. It got put aside for 15 years. Now the hunt is back on! I love it, it is a great passion that gives me heartfelt satisfaction with every new discovery! I am doing this for my grandsons, so they know who they are. There are, at this point, too many surnames to list. We have had our DNA tests done and I would recommend it. I am so grateful to all the tireless hard work of all the contributors here. God Bless You All! This is one of the best sites!. I have found my great-great grandfather, missing since Gettysbury, in Arlington. I also do heirship legal work for private concerns and title attorneys, which brings another perspective to consider in the research of our families. I am so grateful to my mother who started the quest almost 30 years ago. She took tons of photos, copies of newpaper articles, Bible pages, and obits, interviews with our elders, and pages upon pages of handwritten documentation and notes. For being a novice to this craft, she was super! She passed a few years later and only wish I had the "know your heritage" bug when I was young. I sure have an itch for it now! Good Luck to All!

I am a born and raised Alaskan, married a Texas homeboy and moved south. My mother is a native Pennsylvanian and my dad is a native Oregonian. I started working on a family tree 20 years ago, way before computers and the worldwide web. It got put aside for 15 years. Now the hunt is back on! I love it, it is a great passion that gives me heartfelt satisfaction with every new discovery! I am doing this for my grandsons, so they know who they are. There are, at this point, too many surnames to list. We have had our DNA tests done and I would recommend it. I am so grateful to all the tireless hard work of all the contributors here. God Bless You All! This is one of the best sites!. I have found my great-great grandfather, missing since Gettysbury, in Arlington. I also do heirship legal work for private concerns and title attorneys, which brings another perspective to consider in the research of our families. I am so grateful to my mother who started the quest almost 30 years ago. She took tons of photos, copies of newpaper articles, Bible pages, and obits, interviews with our elders, and pages upon pages of handwritten documentation and notes. For being a novice to this craft, she was super! She passed a few years later and only wish I had the "know your heritage" bug when I was young. I sure have an itch for it now! Good Luck to All!