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| Karin Rice (#46942100)
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I have been researching my family history for many years and have visited many cemeteries. My children grew up thinking that a natural part of vacation was visiting a cemetery and reading all the tombstones. The information I have entered in Find A Grave so far has been family, some very distant, but related somewhere down the line. If anyone would like to update an entry that I made, please let me know and I will make changes.
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**WHY I DO GENEALOGY**
We are the chosen. My feelings are, in each family, there is one who seems called to find the ancestors.
To put flesh on their bones and 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, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the Story Tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as if it were in our genes.
Those who have gone before cry out to us. " Tell our story. " So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today.
It goes to respecting their hardships, their losses and building 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 never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on understanding that they were doing it for us.
That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do.
With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family.
It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers.
That is why I do my family genealogy and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.
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Betty Frank
 | John Reynolds
The linkages you requested have been made.
Betty | | | Shirley Hoard
 | RE: John Terry Photo
You're welcome. Thanks! | | | Shirley Hoard
| John Terry photo
I see you have a photo posted for John Terry in the East Berlin twp. cemetery. I was wondering if I could use it in my personal Atwell family tree? | | | Amy Clementz
 | RE: Lilly Cahill
Thanks so much! I am very greatful for this site! Am looking forward to keeping in touch with you and your brother! | | | Amy Clementz
| RE: Lilly Cahill
Thanks so much! I am very greatful for this site! Am looking forward to keeping in touch with you and your brother! | | | Amy Clementz
| Lilly Cahill
Hello, I just became a member and have been researching my grandfather's side and then decided to start checking into my grandmother's side. I was surprised to find an abundance of information on her side. Thanks for starting the memorial. Thanks, Amy | | | TMKinney
 | RE: James Allan Crawford #67197886
I am not related to these Crawford's that I know of. They are buried in the same plot Section 1 Plot 189. I would assume that they are his parents.Added by TMKinney on Feb 11, 2013 9:15 AM | | | TMKinney
| RE: James Allan Crawford #67197886
I am not related to these Crawford's that I know of. They are buried in the same plot Section 1 Plot 189. I would assume that they are his parents.Added by TMKinney on Feb 11, 2013 9:15 AM | | | RICHARD HOWELL
 | RE: Christena/Christina Howell
Thank you for the message Patricia. There were Gilliands in my family, and I have a little info if you would like it.
Respectfully,
Richard (aka Fox Walking) | | | RICHARD HOWELL
| Christena/Christina Howell
Both Cases, Wife Of Young Howell
#33802395 is not buried in Howell Cemetery
#6469936 is buried in Hunter Cemetery with her husband Young Howell.
I have spent many hours with my father, clearing and mowing Howell Cemetery, and I can assure you that #33802395 is not buried there.
I entered her burial, #6469936 in Hunter Cemetery June 3, 2002 with data gathered by visual means of both myself and my father Robert Howell on Oct. 26, 1981. Since then , a couple more journeys to that cemetery has provided us with confirmation of the data we first gathered, and we were able to get clear photos of her stone and Young's.
So a little record adjusting needs to be done. Since you made the last entry, I will pass that task on to you.
Regardless, she is still my 2nd Gr Aunt.
Respectfully
Richard D. Howell (aka Fox Walking) | | | | [View all messages...] |
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