Earl Burrowes, Sr

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Born in Jamaica in 1944 my family (Mom, sister and I) moved to Liberia, West Africa, in 1950 - Dad have gone over in 1948 to prepare for our relocation of a lifetime. The family grew - another brother and three sister were added.

Dad died rather suddenly in 1969 but by then the support of his - and Mom's - network of friends kept the family on Dad's focus of making Liberia home. As we (children) grew up we started families of our own - expanding the Jamaican-Liberian branch of the family tree significantly.

Then the bottom fell out in 1980 after a bloody - and extremely violent - military coup. I left Liberia for the US in 1982 after the rest of the extended family had left. After 30 years in Liberia Mom was keen on reestablishing contact with long-lost family members in the US and Jamaica - and the only way all of these names, and relations, could make any sense to me was to enter them into a genealogy software.

Thus began some 40 years of genealogy research that began with that one small family unit but now includes over 15,000 names touching almost every continent. Many Nations, One People...

If, in my zeal for honoring our ancestors, I have entered one of yours which you would like to manager and maintain, please contact me and I will most happily make that transfer.

Born in Jamaica in 1944 my family (Mom, sister and I) moved to Liberia, West Africa, in 1950 - Dad have gone over in 1948 to prepare for our relocation of a lifetime. The family grew - another brother and three sister were added.

Dad died rather suddenly in 1969 but by then the support of his - and Mom's - network of friends kept the family on Dad's focus of making Liberia home. As we (children) grew up we started families of our own - expanding the Jamaican-Liberian branch of the family tree significantly.

Then the bottom fell out in 1980 after a bloody - and extremely violent - military coup. I left Liberia for the US in 1982 after the rest of the extended family had left. After 30 years in Liberia Mom was keen on reestablishing contact with long-lost family members in the US and Jamaica - and the only way all of these names, and relations, could make any sense to me was to enter them into a genealogy software.

Thus began some 40 years of genealogy research that began with that one small family unit but now includes over 15,000 names touching almost every continent. Many Nations, One People...

If, in my zeal for honoring our ancestors, I have entered one of yours which you would like to manager and maintain, please contact me and I will most happily make that transfer.

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