The documentation part of this journey began over 30 yrs. ago via letter writing including visits with great aunts & uncles, county clerk offices, cemeteries & homeplaces. These visits provided photos, certified copies of certificates & yes lots of stories.
The sensory journey began nearly 60 yrs. ago. There were attendances @ reunions, weddings, wakes & funerals. Also participation in the traditional family events such as: presentation of newborns to the patriarch; sewing circles; the mass cookings for family events; agricultural & animal husbandry; hunting & fishing too. These provided common sense & life lessons, dialect of my speech, recipes (which have their own familial histories & stories) and of course more stories.
My families include but not limited to: Clark, Ford, Haynes/Haines, Massie/Massey, Mize, Ross, Shreeves/Schreeves, Stone, Stovall, Sweeney/Swinney and Tuttle. The tracks I'm following: IN, KY, MA, MD, NC, TN, VA, WV, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland & Scotland.
Please feel free to contact me with any corrections and/or requests for findagrave protocol transfers. All photos are available to use, please post where you got them.

The documentation part of this journey began over 30 yrs. ago via letter writing including visits with great aunts & uncles, county clerk offices, cemeteries & homeplaces. These visits provided photos, certified copies of certificates & yes lots of stories.
The sensory journey began nearly 60 yrs. ago. There were attendances @ reunions, weddings, wakes & funerals. Also participation in the traditional family events such as: presentation of newborns to the patriarch; sewing circles; the mass cookings for family events; agricultural & animal husbandry; hunting & fishing too. These provided common sense & life lessons, dialect of my speech, recipes (which have their own familial histories & stories) and of course more stories.
My families include but not limited to: Clark, Ford, Haynes/Haines, Massie/Massey, Mize, Ross, Shreeves/Schreeves, Stone, Stovall, Sweeney/Swinney and Tuttle. The tracks I'm following: IN, KY, MA, MD, NC, TN, VA, WV, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland & Scotland.
Please feel free to contact me with any corrections and/or requests for findagrave protocol transfers. All photos are available to use, please post where you got them.