A few trips to cemeteries finding tombstones of relatives Charlie and I knew nothing about, I have saved several photos of those headstones on webpages and tried to write a little bit about those new discoveries.

My mother didn't know much about her parents since she was orphaned at the age of 4 and raised by her mother's McClain parents.

Once I had my family tree up and looking fabulous, I began on my late husband's family and found one of his cousins, Clarence Bearden, posting on the internet, doing the same thing with the Brooks lineage. I called Charlie's cousin, Sue Carol, about Mary Ella's lineage and found that her husband, Wayne Bozeman, was also my cousin, WOW !!

Wayne and Sue Carol had dug deeply into his lineage and they were amazed with my Bozeman research. They had been to the graves at Hope Hull, but so had Clarence Bearden and he had also published an article about his findings there on the Alabama Cemetery Preservation webpage.

Beverly took me to Hope Hull and our findings were extremely fascinating and we took many pictures

Then we went to Dublin to further our reearch and to Elmore County and I have many other pictures within.

Beverly gave me a new computer for Christmas 2006 with a free subscription to ancestry.com and I have saved hundreds of old documents, and census images showing the tracks of our ancestors.

Wayne loaned me his copy of a book written about the Bozemans and I have also scanned those pages into my research.

I have posted my huge family tree on the internet to share at rootsweb.com and there is another relative online researching the Brooks lineage of Tennessee and Alabama

New relatives write to me all the time, I have dozens and dozens of emails from people asking for information, sharing their lineage, letting me know that we are related.

My mother was an indian and my father had some indian blood so I am certainly interested in all native american history, finding a lot being uploaded to usgenweb.com