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7/26/2019 - Wow I can't believe its been 4 years since I've last updated. My children are 7 and 9 now, full of life and fun. Lifes crazy and hectic but good. I also have a tree on ancestry as well (kathysmi -- im easy to find with dna connected.)
5/3/2015 - Our two little twigs are getting bigger they are 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 now. Bright and smart and smiling, and I'm sure those who came before us would be smiling down from heaven at their impish antics. My time as a Mom trumps my research right now so if anyone finds any corrections please contact me via the contact page or my email kathysmi@hotmail.com. Thanks.
Kat
This is a compilation of my family trees, there are many different people who have helped. When I started out being curious about the genealogy of my family I was probably about 16 years old or so. I asked questions, and was handed a family history book on the Hayman line of my family written by one of my great great aunts Lelia Eugenie Smith, so it to her I credit much of the information for that direct line. I put it aside during my later teenage years, and came back to it when my Uncle Ed found my family a few years back through research, he has also been an awesome source of information, and some of this research is from what he had given to me as well. This goes to show people that genealogy helps reunite families as well as proves that those before us, and many of their deeds are past, but they are not forgotten. For many of the other lines, it is between too many to name every single person, but to everyone I thank you. For my Reid and Faulkner(Fagner) branches, I have a special thank you to John Maxwell, who opened up a world for me I had thought was lost. For my Stinson/Knight/Paul/Wright/Stacy line, the thank you starts with Shirley O'Neil who led me into the right direction for mostly the Stinson/Knight line, the family opened up from those couple of names. For the Bursey/Fagner/Reid lines, Jill Marshall and Wayne Puddister was a wonderful source of information. All of the names have passed away in my family line, for my grandfather's Smith line (which was an adopted name, for which I am proud to carry as my adopted great great grandfather was for lack of a better term, a great man of his time) I am the last of his direct line who carries his last name, when the time comes and I get married the name dies in my line. I hope that this helps someone in their search it is by no means completed and I am working on more sources for my more direct lines, and it is always a work in progress. I have no intention of taking the credit for others work, which is why I tried to be as detailed as possible in my source lists. Another special thankyou to Jeff Keats for his information on the Bursey, Keats, and Garland files. For the Isaac Turner/Ruth Turner family line, descendants of the Elder William Brewster, a special thankyou goes out to Tuty Payne, who gave me all of the information on that family line, and the credit goes to her solely for the research on that family line.
A special mention to Ron De Silva and his California family branch for much of my info on the Gregorio/Gregario family lines. In his own words "Anyhow, please think of mentioning the inspiration of my deceased dad (Anthony Joseph de Silva and his sister Flora and brother Joesph ), that got me to travel back to the Azores and reconnect with all the lost cousins and records in the Azores.Almost everything on- line for the da Silvas, Salvadors, Quadrados, Fernandes, Furtados, Coelhos, Mendoncas , Barbeiros and so many other surnames dad had tucked in his head. Even my trips to the island of Pico to find much older roots (dad had said that his dad just knew we were Pico Roots on his dads side) .Alll the other Azorean trees tied in, started from dad seeing the ONLY thing , on line , 11 years ago was Hercualno Vieira da Silva (my great uncle) and his family." R De Silva-- I (Kathy) look forward to helping compile some of our family lines in the years to come and am so happy about making a connection with you and your California branch.
I do not have my source list on here so if there is a question regarding a person please send me an email and ask, and I'll do my best to answer as quickly and accurately as possible. For some of the families, even though there may not directly be a blood tie to myself, I have continued until the line stopped to keep the records as complete as possible.
In closing, here is a genealogy poem I came across in one of my searches :
THE STORY TELLERS
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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. 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. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why do I do the things I do?
It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying 'I can't let this happen'. 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 they fought to make and keep us a Nation.
It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for Us; 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 them and they are us. 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 their 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 put flesh on the bones.
--author unknown
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Now the actual closing, this tree is dedicated to all those who came before me, for without them, where would we be. To my family, immediate and extended this is not only for us, but for those who come after us, when I started this it was a long time ago out of curiousity, and now it's like there are whole new worlds, and times opening up. Most people think they know what it was like in the times of their ancestors, but only through research of not only the ancestors, but where they lived and things that happened around that time period, can they really have more of a sense of what they went through. For the Quakers in my family lines, they were persecuted, and like the Pilgrims sought religious freedom. For the French Huegenots, they were exiled from their homeland, and shipped to Nova Scotia on ships where the conditions were barely able to sustain life, and many perished at sea. We will never know all of our ancestors, but by people sharing and showing as much as they can there, you can find there is so much more out there about them all. For my Hayman ancestor, William, he was a Scotsman, who signed up during the American Revolution as a British regular with the Royal North Carolina Regiment, there is a document in existence which is his discharge from the army. There is a lot of time and effort already into this tree and I can only hope that as time goes on, there are more details and more connections made through people finding it, which is why it was placed on here.
As I write this another special dedication comes to mind, to my Grandmother Ethel, one of the people in my life who always saw more in me than I ever did, and for the love that she unconditionally gave to me, and who always told me she loved me"a bushel and a peck" and would hold out her arms for me for a big hug, and laughter in her eyes. The Faulkner and Reid branches are hers and I have been lucky to find back to the 1700's and hope that someday I can make the connection further for her.
As a sidenote: Some of the files were imported into my original program, source lists and all, some may not be direct source lists from myself, but rather from the original imported file. I have not put the source list on here, if someone would like to know where I received information from on a family line, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to answer, as I said some was found and imported into the main file, and I've tried to document those as best as possible. Am fixing errors as I go along, making corrections, and so on. It is as it will probably be for the rest of my life, a work in progress. If you find a correction that needs to be done, please let me know, and I will fix it in my main file, and when the file is reuploaded to tribalpages, you will see correction made.
I am making a note regarding pictures on this site, while I don't mind sharing, please send an inquiry regarding them. I have seen this discussed recently on the forum regarding this issue and felt a note should be made on the main page regarding this. They are my own property or the property of those they were sent to me by and permission should be asked either way. The ones not specifically listed as "courtesy of" are mine, and as such are Copyrighted 2009 by Kathy Smith and family. Please ask permission to bring them to another site, and not just copy and paste them. Thank you.
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