YEP, we're related

I love working on Genealogy.  I enjoy the searching and I am always so thankful when I find a bit more information.  I am grateful to my Mom and Dad, Virginia Louise McGuire and Terrell Leslie Rogers, who loved to work on genealogy and wrote so many letters to family members, that are now gone, so we could have that information now.  I remember looking at their handwritten family group sheets and re-writing them so I would have my own set. 

I hope any visitors to my site will enjoy what information is there (so far) and be willing to add stories, pictures, and documents, whatever you want, so that we can all know our ancestors a bit better.

Take time to look at your memories now.  If pictures are not labeled, stories not told, take the time to do those things now so you don’t end up with memories of “someone” but your posterity might not know who they are, what they were like, how they lived, etc.

A poem by Pamela S. Harazim is one of my favorites, and unfortunately, I have a couple boxes like she describes in her poem.

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 “Come, look with me inside this drawer, in this box I’ve often seen, at the pictures, black and white, faces proud, still and serene. I wish I knew the people. These strangers in the box, their names, and all their memories, are lost among my socks.  I wonder what their lives were like, How did they spend their days? What about their special times? I’ll never know their ways.  If only someone had taken time, to tell who, what, where, and when, these faces of my heritage would come to life again.  Could this become the fate, of the pictures we take today? The faces and the memories, someday to be passed away? Take time to save your stories, seize the opportunity when it knocks, or someday you and yours could be strangers in the box”