I've always had a passion for genealogy, family history and history in general. My goal is to preserve my family history while helping others discover theirs.

"Dear Ancestor"
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care;
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist;
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
The place you filled
one hundred years ago,
spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew.
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Walter Butler Palmer (written in 1906)

I've always had a passion for genealogy, family history and history in general. My goal is to preserve my family history while helping others discover theirs.

"Dear Ancestor"
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care;
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist;
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
The place you filled
one hundred years ago,
spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew.
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Walter Butler Palmer (written in 1906)