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How it all began...
More than 8 years ago I decided I wanted to know more about my family and my roots. Who were they? So, the task began and I soon realized how little I knew about my living relatives let alone the ones who had passed. That alone made my task a journey of discovery of what would be my past, present and future. The future being what I would leave for the generations to come. Their legacy of how they became to be.
On this website you'll find information relating to countless hours spent researching family roots. My “obsession” has brought me to collecting anything and everything I could about my roots and eventually my small notebook in which I began became a room full of research. It was that pile of “stuff” which has brought me to where I am now, this website.
The names in the "Top Surnames" area to the left are the main focus for my own family tree but you will find thousands of others in the main surname area. My pool began to grow and grow once family members and friends were alied and now my surnames list is over 83,000 names strong.
I have come to love a cemetery not fear it and in that “love” my husband and I have traveled to Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Iowa, and Wisconsin, returning with as many headstones as I could photograph and my husband would let me. He has been such a great help in my task and I could not have done it without him. So, check on the state links on the right too.
I hope you will enjoy what I have on this site as much as I have gathering it!
Who knows we might even have a relative who has crossed paths!
My German heritage
Growing up, I knew of of my German heritage but it was not until I began my search for my “roots” did I discover through the amazing research of my newly found cousin, George Valko, that my Grandmother was a Volga German. I found that she was one of many ethnic Germans living along the Volga River in the region of Russia around Saratov and to the south whose ancestors left Germany to settle in the Volga River region who would maintain the German culture, language and traditions. Visit George Valko to learn more about Volga Germans.
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