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A Critchfield ConnectionUpdated September 6, 2000 | |
Over my grandmother's breakfast table one January morning, my journey into organizing what I knew or could find out about our family history began on the only "paper" that was handy -- a white dinner napkin and a red felt pen!As she spoke of my Great-grandfather Morrison and the houses he built in Wisconsin, and of the stern Critchfield's, of the Dearholts, the Atwoods, of stories that one of the lines in her history went back to Plymouth (didn't everyone's?), I knew that there would come a time when I couldn't sit at her table to have her share all of the stories.There would come a time when I would become the storyteller, the recorder, and the organizer.Seventeen years have past, and so has my dearest friend, my grandma, Edna Alvertie Morrison Critchfield, but the weaving of the tapestry continues in my research and each generation of our family seems to have their time to discover their own connection with the past as a bridge to understanding the future.I began, as most family genealogists do, on a piece of paper (or napkin!) but with wonderful software programs, I have been able to log data not just in our direct line, but as "wide and deep" as the information that I come across in my research.Perhaps if you are not in our direct line, you may still find a branch or tendril that provides a clue for you. | |
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