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THE FIRST FOCUS OF OUR FAMILY IS JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR AND LORD. HE CREATED THE FAMILY IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WHEN HE SAID "IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO DWELL ALONE," SO HE CREATED, EVE, FROM THIS CAME THE FAMILY UNIT. OUR FAMILY TREE HAS MUCH DIVERSITY, WITH BLENDED FAMILIES TO LONG TIME MARRIAGES. EACH MEMBER IS LOVED FOR WHO HE OR SHE IS. WE ARE STRONG PEOPLE WITH MUCH CHARACTER. MY RESEARCH INTO THE OUR DIFFERENT LINEAGES HAS PROVEN THIS TO BE SO.
UNTIL MY MOTHER'S DEATH IN MARCH OF 1999 OUR FAMILY HAD NOT REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS FOR US TO GET TOGETHER. WE HELD OUR FIRST FAMILY REUNION ON OCT 13, 2001. IT WAS A GREAT TURN OUT WITH 5 OF MY SIX SIBLINGS, 6 OF THE 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND 2 OF THE 4 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ATTENDING. A WONDERFUL TIME WAS HAD BY ALL. PLANS ARE IN THE MAKING FOR A SPRING REUNION IN 2003.
MY ANCESTRAL SEARCH BEGAN WITH AN OLD BOX OF PICTURES THAT I INHERITED FROM MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IN 1977. SINCE THAT TIME THIS BOX HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A NUISANCE TO ME. IT WAS ALWAYS IN THE WAY AND I WAS CONSTANTLY FINDING IT A NEW HOME. IN JAN 2002, I AGAIN HAD TO UNDERTAKE THIS TASK BUT THIS TIME THE BOX BROKE AND THE CONTENTS SPILLED ONTO THE FLOOR. THERE WERE PICTURES BACK TO THE LATE 1800'S, ARTICLES, CARDS, LETTERS AND EVEN A RUFF COPY OF MY FATHER'S GENEALOGY BACK TO 1745. I FELT LIKE I HAD SPILLED THE ASHES FROM MY ANCESTORS URN, BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME I REALIZED WHAT WAS A NUISANCE TO ME
HAD BEEN THE TREASURES AND LIFE OF MY ANCESTORS. I BEGAN TO WONDER WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE AND WHY THEY HAD KEPT THIS INFORMATION. SO HERE BEGAN MY SEARCH.
MY FIRST EXCITING FIND WAS PUTTING IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S NAME, JOSIE FULMER HINES, AND FINDING ANOTHER LINE OF HINES'S WITH MINE AND MY SYBLINGS NAME'S LISTED. I HAVE FOUND MY FAMILY HAS BEEN IN ALABAMA FOR ALMOST 200 YEARS AND MY 4TH GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS FRENCH. THIS WAS INTERESTING SINCE I HAVE 2 NEPHEWS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN TO FRANCE, ONE AS A MISSIONARY. WHOS KNOWS IT COULD BE IN THE BLOOD LINE.
THEN I PUT IN MY HUSBAND'S GRANDFATHER'S NAME, BIRD ODLE, AND FOUND HIS GRANDMOTHER'S, LOLA BELL FRAZE, SISTER'S CHILDREN. I HAVE BEEN E-MAILING THE COUSIN WHO DID THE RESEARCH ON THIS LINE. HE HAS TAKEN IT BACK TO, MICHAEL FRAZE, MY HUSBAND 3RD GREAT MATERNAL GRANDFATHER. HE WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY ON JUNE 17,1800.
I HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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