From Southern Illinois to Washington DC to beautiful Western North Carolina, my life's journey has taken me to just the right places to find my ancestors. I have been doing genealogy work all my life - even as a young child I kept scrapbooks and photo albums of family and friends. I feel called to this work. A poem, WE ARE THE CHOSEN by Della M. Cumming expresses my beliefs and feelings about genealogy: "In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors...to put flesh on their bones and make them live again...to tell the family story, breathing life into all who have gone before. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. We are the story tellers of the tribe." --Excerpt from poem WE ARE THE CHOSEN by Della M. Cumming ca 1943.

From Southern Illinois to Washington DC to beautiful Western North Carolina, my life's journey has taken me to just the right places to find my ancestors. I have been doing genealogy work all my life - even as a young child I kept scrapbooks and photo albums of family and friends. I feel called to this work. A poem, WE ARE THE CHOSEN by Della M. Cumming expresses my beliefs and feelings about genealogy: "In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors...to put flesh on their bones and make them live again...to tell the family story, breathing life into all who have gone before. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. We are the story tellers of the tribe." --Excerpt from poem WE ARE THE CHOSEN by Della M. Cumming ca 1943.