I'm here to help anyone in any way I can. That doesn't mean I have to tolerate bad attitudes or nasty messages from anyone for a myriad of reasons that are totally irrelevant to genealogical results I either discover or uncover. Please don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message. I certainly can't change it and neither can you. Sometimes truths take time to fully unwind, so just let it be... at least for now.

I definity want to acknowledge that I have met some wonderful people on this long life journey I've been on... and I am so grateful to all of those who have either helped me or who have allowed me to help them. There will always be a special place in my heart for everyone that has reached out to me, as well as to those who have responded when I've reached out to them.

My journey, as a whole, has been invigorating. Sometimes, I've even been surprisingly shocked at the way some information I have found has weaved an intricate web over the passage of time, revealing a story's end that I never, in a million years, saw coming! The shot of dopamine when one discovers such things is exhilarating like not many ever experience!

Throughout it all I have loved deeply and have been equally loved in return. I've been saddened, betrayed, and it took me 50 years to be so heartbroken that I thought I'd never find my soul again... Yet, after all that has been said and done thus far, I feel immensely blessed. God has never failed to strengthen me and prepare me for whatever is yet to come. For the grace of God, I really don't deserve it, but I am so glad that it is offerred to all of us.

I hope and pray that I get to either meet or speak to some of the new torch bearers that will take all that we "Gravers" have been doing over the past few decades and build upon it to unveil even more mysteries of both the past and the future. As for me, I'm not quite done yet... but, just in case I am and don't know it quite yet, hasn't it been a beautiful ride?

Luana Dawn Alger
Mon, 8 Jan 2023

I'm here to help anyone in any way I can. That doesn't mean I have to tolerate bad attitudes or nasty messages from anyone for a myriad of reasons that are totally irrelevant to genealogical results I either discover or uncover. Please don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message. I certainly can't change it and neither can you. Sometimes truths take time to fully unwind, so just let it be... at least for now.

I definity want to acknowledge that I have met some wonderful people on this long life journey I've been on... and I am so grateful to all of those who have either helped me or who have allowed me to help them. There will always be a special place in my heart for everyone that has reached out to me, as well as to those who have responded when I've reached out to them.

My journey, as a whole, has been invigorating. Sometimes, I've even been surprisingly shocked at the way some information I have found has weaved an intricate web over the passage of time, revealing a story's end that I never, in a million years, saw coming! The shot of dopamine when one discovers such things is exhilarating like not many ever experience!

Throughout it all I have loved deeply and have been equally loved in return. I've been saddened, betrayed, and it took me 50 years to be so heartbroken that I thought I'd never find my soul again... Yet, after all that has been said and done thus far, I feel immensely blessed. God has never failed to strengthen me and prepare me for whatever is yet to come. For the grace of God, I really don't deserve it, but I am so glad that it is offerred to all of us.

I hope and pray that I get to either meet or speak to some of the new torch bearers that will take all that we "Gravers" have been doing over the past few decades and build upon it to unveil even more mysteries of both the past and the future. As for me, I'm not quite done yet... but, just in case I am and don't know it quite yet, hasn't it been a beautiful ride?

Luana Dawn Alger
Mon, 8 Jan 2023