A little bit of history about me and my family. Both of my parents are Southern West Virginian, as are my grandparents.

I was born in Ft. Devens, Mass., about 40 miles west of Boston. I lived there for two years before my father was transferred to Germany in 1952 for two years tour of duty. Some of my best early memories in the 1950's are playing in the creek and fishing at my grandmother's home just a mile down the road from Carnefex Ferry State Park in Nicholas County, West Virginia.  My maternal grandfather brought that home place in the early 1900's, and some of my family lives there to this day.  He was a brilliant educator for some of the local school's  around Raleigh and Nicholas Counties. He and my grandmother had a total of over 50 years of teaching. Both of my grandparents family came from Greenbrier County, WV.
My father was born in Russellville, Fayette County, WV to a coal miner family. During WWII and Korean War, he served with distinction in the US Army as a Chaplain AND counselor in the medical field.  He was a genius and an inspiring man. My paternal grandfather was a coal miner and a farmer on Sewell Mountain, Fayette County, WV.  He had a talents of being able to graft different species of fruit trees into one tree.
 
I graduated in 1973 in North Carolina and moved back to West Virginia. I immediately started working at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry for several years. 

In 1981, I married my beloved wife Evelyn Tennant from Blacksville, Monongalia County, WV. Her Tennant family has roots going back to the America Revolution in Augusta County Va now Monongalia County, WV.
My family also has roots going back to the Revolutionary War in Virginia.

I took an interest in genealogy in 1994 when we got our first computer and what an addictive hobby it has become. I have amassed over 175,000 individuals from both side of our family, also I was previously a Genealogy Host in several different area of research and chat rooms such War between the States, Southern, Mid-Atlantic in the "Genealogy Forum" on America Online for many years.

Our ancestors defeated the King's Army and built the greatest democracy on Earth. They nurtured it over centuries. They worked the land. They fought and died for the Union to cut the cancer of slavery from this great nation. They watered the tree of liberty. Our grandparents saved the free world, allowing future generations to spread the blessings of democracy and freedom across the globe. That is what West Virginian do, and I could not be more proud of that today.

A little bit of history about me and my family. Both of my parents are Southern West Virginian, as are my grandparents.

I was born in Ft. Devens, Mass., about 40 miles west of Boston. I lived there for two years before my father was transferred to Germany in 1952 for two years tour of duty. Some of my best early memories in the 1950's are playing in the creek and fishing at my grandmother's home just a mile down the road from Carnefex Ferry State Park in Nicholas County, West Virginia.  My maternal grandfather brought that home place in the early 1900's, and some of my family lives there to this day.  He was a brilliant educator for some of the local school's  around Raleigh and Nicholas Counties. He and my grandmother had a total of over 50 years of teaching. Both of my grandparents family came from Greenbrier County, WV.
My father was born in Russellville, Fayette County, WV to a coal miner family. During WWII and Korean War, he served with distinction in the US Army as a Chaplain AND counselor in the medical field.  He was a genius and an inspiring man. My paternal grandfather was a coal miner and a farmer on Sewell Mountain, Fayette County, WV.  He had a talents of being able to graft different species of fruit trees into one tree.
 
I graduated in 1973 in North Carolina and moved back to West Virginia. I immediately started working at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry for several years. 

In 1981, I married my beloved wife Evelyn Tennant from Blacksville, Monongalia County, WV. Her Tennant family has roots going back to the America Revolution in Augusta County Va now Monongalia County, WV.
My family also has roots going back to the Revolutionary War in Virginia.

I took an interest in genealogy in 1994 when we got our first computer and what an addictive hobby it has become. I have amassed over 175,000 individuals from both side of our family, also I was previously a Genealogy Host in several different area of research and chat rooms such War between the States, Southern, Mid-Atlantic in the "Genealogy Forum" on America Online for many years.

Our ancestors defeated the King's Army and built the greatest democracy on Earth. They nurtured it over centuries. They worked the land. They fought and died for the Union to cut the cancer of slavery from this great nation. They watered the tree of liberty. Our grandparents saved the free world, allowing future generations to spread the blessings of democracy and freedom across the globe. That is what West Virginian do, and I could not be more proud of that today.