I have been researching my family tree lately and have found some amazing things. If I can encourage one or more to take the time to honor your roots, or to share something you have found out in your research. Maybe we can share free web sites to help others. Happy hunting!!
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I did a tree a number of years ago when I found I had family in the area. After the branches got crazy with in-law after cousin after in-law I gave it up after a few generations when I realized that we are all cousins on this planet(and in the South we are closer cousins). 
I have some very unique, wonderful, and strange family members all over this globe. We are all part of the human tree and I find great comfort in that.
I have some very unique, wonderful, and strange family members all over this globe. We are all part of the human tree and I find great comfort in that.
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I did a tree a number of years ago when I found I had family in the area. After the branches got crazy with in-law after cousin after in-law I gave it up after a few generations when I realized that we are all cousins on this planet(and in the South we are closer cousins).
I have some very unique, wonderful, and strange family members all over this globe. We are all part of the human tree and I find great comfort in that.
One thing that happened as I was searching for my Mothers side of the family was this..........
Military 1863/64 in en 3-11-63 Glendale; MI 10-5-63 Corinth; MO 2-6-64 Memphis (age 20)
Death...... 1864 castrated, mutilated & skinned alive. (age 21).....
Now at the same time I found this out someone on the board.... lets call him (7th Zen) was making fun of Native Americans. It really made me do some soul searching.
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...just think when my descendents start looking back...mother of sarafunn, goes by Miss Kitty and posts on sowal.com for a living!Beach FanaticAuthor
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I have been researching my family tree lately and have found some amazing things. If I can encourage one or more to take the time to honor your roots, or to share something you have found out in your research. Maybe we can share free web sites to help others. Happy hunting!!
My brother took my paternal grandmother's family back 75 generations. He got to Eric the Red and had to give up because the Vikings didn't keep very good records. All their names were Somebody the Something, which was hard to follow.
I was really impressed when I found out that I'm a direct descendant of Charlemagne, but then my brother told me that just about everyone is a direct descendant of Charlemagne. Oh, well.
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I did a tree a number of years ago when I found I had family in the area. After the branches got crazy with in-law after cousin after in-law I gave it up after a few generations when I realized that we are all cousins on this planet(and in the South we are closer cousins).
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One thing that happened as I was searching for my Mothers side of the family was this..........
Military 1863/64 in en 3-11-63 Glendale; MI 10-5-63 Corinth; MO 2-6-64 Memphis (age 20)
Death...... 1864 castrated, mutilated & skinned alive. (age 21).....
Now at the same time I found this out someone on the board.... lets call him (7th Zen) was making fun of Native Americans. It really made me do some soul searching.
Hmmm --- I wonder who she is talking about?
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Hmmm --- I wonder who she is talking about?
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My brother took my paternal grandmother's family back 75 generations. He got to Eric the Red and had to give up because the Vikings didn't keep very good records. All their names were Somebody the Something, which was hard to follow.
I was really impressed when I found out that I'm a direct descendant of Charlemagne, but then my brother told me that just about everyone is a direct descendant of Charlemagne. Oh, well.
[SIZE=+2]King Charlemagne[/SIZE]
The greatest of medieval kings was born in 742, at a place unknown. He was of German blood and speech, and shared some characteristics of his people- strength of body, courage of spirit, pride of race, and a crude simplicity many centuries apart from the urbane polish of the modern French. He had little book learning; read only a few books- but good ones; tried in his old age to learn writing, but never quite succeeded; yet he could speak old Teutonic and literary Latin, and understood Greek.
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I grandparents. If only they could live forever. 
I can still hear my Nanny and Pappa laughin' and tellin' stories in their sweet east Texas country talk. They had guinea hens, cows and beautiful gardens with a creek in their yard. We'd swim in the creek on those hot Texas summer days. Memories . their parents were loggers(kinda like in Pt. Washington a long time ago, where they floated the logs down the river) and the other one was an engineer from Scotland who built roads in Texas, along with his sons. The great grandmas are more of a mystery. I think one was from a reservation in OK.
My other Grandpa was a corn farmer in Nebraska, and Grandma was a teacher. They all grew up in the depression. I wish I would've recorded more of their stories, esp. about family history. I feel lucky to have gotten to hang out on the corn farm for a little while in the summers as a kid before they retired and sold the farm. Talk about some hard work. I remember grandpa workin' in his irrigation, thumpin' the end of the tubes with his hand to get 'em runnin', ridin' the big John Deere harvester tractor with the cab. Can't believe I got to ride on the side on the big tire cover when I was 6 or 7. 
It was the 60's. We waited in the car all the time for our moms back then. Maybe it was safer then. Oh well, got off track. I just old folks. I wish families could get a break from the government for leaving work to care for our own elderly family in their/our own homes. Anyhow, old people rock and can teach us so much if we just take a minute to listen to them. ;-) Gosh they to tell stories. At least mine did. I was very blessed to get to hear 'em. A lot of people never even got to meet their grandparents. Sorry for that. 
grandparents. If only they could live forever. I can still hear my Nanny and Pappa laughin' and tellin' stories in their sweet east Texas country talk. They had guinea hens, cows and beautiful gardens with a creek in their yard. We'd swim in the creek on those hot Texas summer days. Memories . their parents were loggers(kinda like in Pt. Washington a long time ago, where they floated the logs down the river) and the other one was an engineer from Scotland who built roads in Texas, along with his sons. The great grandmas are more of a mystery. I think one was from a reservation in OK. My other Grandpa was a corn farmer in Nebraska, and Grandma was a teacher. They all grew up in the depression. I wish I would've recorded more of their stories, esp. about family history. I feel lucky to have gotten to hang out on the corn farm for a little while in the summers as a kid before they retired and sold the farm.
Talk about some hard work. I remember grandpa workin' in his irrigation, thumpin' the end of the tubes with his hand to get 'em runnin', ridin' the big John Deere harvester tractor with the cab. Can't believe I got to ride on the side on the big tire cover when I was 6 or 7. It was the 60's. We waited in the car all the time for our moms back then. Maybe it was safer then. Oh well, got off track. I just old folks. I wish families could get a break from the government for leaving work to care for our own elderly family in their/our own homes. Anyhow, old people rock and can teach us so much if we just take a minute to listen to them. ;-) Gosh they to tell stories. At least mine did. I was very blessed to get to hear 'em. A lot of people never even got to meet their grandparents. Sorry for that. 
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Miss Kitty you make me laugh out loud!!
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