For Suggestions and Edits: Please select Edit link in top right corner of memorial.

Kudos to the amazing FindaGrave researchers who enable families worldwide to connect the historical dots to their family trees. "The Roots that make Us One are Stronger than the Branches that Divide Us." Courtesy of Larry Krueger #47801461

Cemeteries: A place where you search for ancestors, but you may dig up new friends!
Genealogy: Where you can confuse the dead and irritate the living.

The Story Tellers
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors, to research the family history, putting flesh on their bones and to make them live again; to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one, and we have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our Story. So, we do, and in finding them, our ancestors, we somehow find ourselves. How many times have I told the ancestors that they have a wonderful family, that they would be proud of us? ...It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish and how they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might be born who we are, and that we remember them. So, we do with love, caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. Now, it is up to the one called in the next generation to answer the call and to take their place in the long line of family storytellers, to step up and put flesh on the bones of our ancestors. (Author Unknown) Thanks to 'Searching Days Gone By' #47144938

For Suggestions and Edits: Please select Edit link in top right corner of memorial.

Kudos to the amazing FindaGrave researchers who enable families worldwide to connect the historical dots to their family trees. "The Roots that make Us One are Stronger than the Branches that Divide Us." Courtesy of Larry Krueger #47801461

Cemeteries: A place where you search for ancestors, but you may dig up new friends!
Genealogy: Where you can confuse the dead and irritate the living.

The Story Tellers
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors, to research the family history, putting flesh on their bones and to make them live again; to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one, and we have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our Story. So, we do, and in finding them, our ancestors, we somehow find ourselves. How many times have I told the ancestors that they have a wonderful family, that they would be proud of us? ...It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish and how they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might be born who we are, and that we remember them. So, we do with love, caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. Now, it is up to the one called in the next generation to answer the call and to take their place in the long line of family storytellers, to step up and put flesh on the bones of our ancestors. (Author Unknown) Thanks to 'Searching Days Gone By' #47144938