 Confederate priisoners |
So my job here is to create an interest in you, to look back into your past, and feel inside you an almost eternal blood coursing through your veins that was a part of your father and your mother and back through their fathers and mothers and so on until we lose track. And perhaps that is what some of us have done, lost track. Without that knowledge it is difficult to realize we really are all brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles all intertwined. Like atoms to molecules is our relationship to our family. |
| The actual research process comes from many different angles. Ask for information from older family members, fathers, mothers, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, write everthing down regardles how trivial it may seem to you at the time. Even unsure dates, fot they may hold a key to an important door sometime in the future. Family Bibles, old tax records, diaries, journals, military records all hold vital information as do birth and death certificates. We will include a list of as many sources and libraries as possible as we become aware of them. Our goal in this endeavor is to create an index of Surnames with as much pertinant information on families and members and where they stood as history unfolded around them, in the hope someone else will be able to link a person or a family member or an ancestor to them. I am furthermore intend to present the names I have been given as my ancestors regardless of whether they can be documented as fact, in hopes someone else may be able to finalize the task. I intend to try to minimize the boredom by presenting each person with as much color as their existance will permit and portray as much history as my resources allow. |  M. Wallace |
