Genealogy without documentation is hearsay.

Family histories, stories, and ancestry family trees are useful guides when starting research but, they need to be supported with documentation. Only the lazy researcher takes someone else's word for the truth. What a shame it is that so many people are misled by undocumented family trees. They will never know who their true ancestors are and are spending their lives honoring unrelated strangers.

My research focus is concentrated on families living in 18th century Lancaster County, PA. Of primary interest to me are the surnames Myers and Landis.

Please send edits through the edits tab. Supporting information should be sent using the suggest any other correction or addition tab. I am not a collector of memorials. I will gladly transfers memorials as long as I am provided with information on the relationship and it complies with Find A Grave guidelines.

"Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning, and no end, and the hand of his father grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand, and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was, to Time That Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we found that we were one..."

--Richard Llewellyn in How Green Was My Valley

Genealogy without documentation is hearsay.

Family histories, stories, and ancestry family trees are useful guides when starting research but, they need to be supported with documentation. Only the lazy researcher takes someone else's word for the truth. What a shame it is that so many people are misled by undocumented family trees. They will never know who their true ancestors are and are spending their lives honoring unrelated strangers.

My research focus is concentrated on families living in 18th century Lancaster County, PA. Of primary interest to me are the surnames Myers and Landis.

Please send edits through the edits tab. Supporting information should be sent using the suggest any other correction or addition tab. I am not a collector of memorials. I will gladly transfers memorials as long as I am provided with information on the relationship and it complies with Find A Grave guidelines.

"Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning, and no end, and the hand of his father grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand, and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was, to Time That Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we found that we were one..."

--Richard Llewellyn in How Green Was My Valley