I started doing genealogy when I began to accompany my Dad on his annual spring trip to the Cape to put flowers on the graves of our ancestors. While in Orleans Cemetery in Orleans, Massachusetts, I decided to take a break from planting and started to wander around. It was a hot and humid day. I found myself on the far side of the cemetery. I sat down on a headstone. Not a ladylike thing to do, I know, but it was hot! Something told me to look down at the headstone. "Somehow" I had chosen to sit on the headstone that belonged to my GG-grandfather. (My Dad didn't even know he was buried there.) Someone obviously wanted me to find him. After all, what are the chances I would chose that one stone out of all the hundreds and hundreds in the cemetery? It was that very moment I knew my ancestors were reaching out to me to tell their stories. I listened. That was 30 years ago and I continue to grow my tree with the stories of my ancestor's lives, loves and children. Hopefully, you too, have a story such as mine.

"The tales and trails of the past lead us to the most unexpected places."

I started doing genealogy when I began to accompany my Dad on his annual spring trip to the Cape to put flowers on the graves of our ancestors. While in Orleans Cemetery in Orleans, Massachusetts, I decided to take a break from planting and started to wander around. It was a hot and humid day. I found myself on the far side of the cemetery. I sat down on a headstone. Not a ladylike thing to do, I know, but it was hot! Something told me to look down at the headstone. "Somehow" I had chosen to sit on the headstone that belonged to my GG-grandfather. (My Dad didn't even know he was buried there.) Someone obviously wanted me to find him. After all, what are the chances I would chose that one stone out of all the hundreds and hundreds in the cemetery? It was that very moment I knew my ancestors were reaching out to me to tell their stories. I listened. That was 30 years ago and I continue to grow my tree with the stories of my ancestor's lives, loves and children. Hopefully, you too, have a story such as mine.

"The tales and trails of the past lead us to the most unexpected places."