“No one is ever truly dead
as long as someone remembers them.”

~~African Proverb

        I've been collecting family history for almost fifty years, and it has come to be many things to me. It is a science, yes, and for many, science is the most important part. That is great because research is the foundation, the skeleton on which everything else hangs.
         But family history for me is more than that. For me, the story is most important, the bringing to life of those who have gone before. They are not just names on rigid headstones or in dusty archives. They were human beings whose blood flows in my flesh today. Without them, I wouldn't be here or be who I am. I like to think that most of them would be surprised that descendants generations and even centuries down the line would be this interested in who they were and what happened to them.
          The story is the reason this website is called a "scrapbook," not a database. Things like names and dates are important to us, but we attempt to go beyond those for the drama and the emotions of the story, and that occasionally includes conjectures. Here is the story of our ancestors as best we can tell it. 

Family Tree 

 ~~popular genealogy quote