although this is not 100% complete i hope everyone enjoys visiting. please  don't forget to sign the guest book.  and be sure to enjoy this family. Hello  again, well, I've updated and added names and to make it easy to follow my  line I have put all names in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.......hope you enjoy it!!!!

__THE GENEALOGIST__

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 gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into  all who have gone before.  We are the storytellers of the tribe. Our genes  have called us, as it were.  Those who have gone before cry out to us: TELL  OUR STORY. And 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 the ancestors  told '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 for me? I cannot  say.

It goes beyond just documenting facts.  It goes to who I am and why I do the  things I do.

It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and  indifference and saying i cannot 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 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 the sum of whom 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 whom we had never known  before.

SPECIAL THANKS TO PAT MORRISON FOR ALL THE LUTZ INFO SHE PROVIDED SPECIAL THANKS TO CAROL PALMER FOR ALL THE TABLER INFO SHE PROVIDED