Welcome to Our Genealogy Site

This site is still under construction, but... We're so pleased you dropped in to visit our site. We've worked for years on our family and its connections to our ancestors. This tree is a combination of people found in public records, trees of other family members, DNA test results from multiple sources and personal research. You are required to log-in to see the tree, build your own tree branch, etc. I have divided this site into several trees based on branches. You will be given access to specific branches that you fall in or are likely to fall in. You may or may not be in more than one branch

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The Chosen

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.

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Some of Our Family Lines

Ned Thomas

I have traced my THOMAS line back to Ned Thomas(1812-1915), my 3rd GGrandfather.

Doll Heath

I have records in this tree going back to Doll Heath (1680-1760 est.), my 9GGrandmother.

Paul Pigg

I have traced one of my lines back to Paul Pigg(1683-1766) (my 7GGrandfather) and even further back by another 5 generations.

Other Lines as Well

We have many more lines to be highlighted.


The Bones of My Bones

The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.' by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.


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