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When I was a kid every summer, my parents would pack us in the family car and off we went to spend a week in the Mountains of Virginia.

Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Parkway, Miller School, and Nelson County were words we heard a lot of. I learned there were three things that my Dad loved most. 1. Family, 2. DuPont, and 3. The Mountains of Virginia While there, we always visited family members, uncles, aunts and some cousins. We had cookouts, lots of rides to areas they grew up in and lots of laughter and good times. I knew, even as a little boy I had ROOTS. I had uncles that left and fought in WWII, a Great Grandfather that was in the Civil War and a 4th Great Grand Father that fought in the Revolutionary War. My 6th Great Grandfather came to America from Ireland as a young boy. He had grandparents that were among the first to want to break away from England. One of these …

Grandparents Declared himself King of Ireland for a

week until the King of England killed him.

walked. I feel a great sense of connectedness and continuity when I go to areas where my family As you can tell Family History and lived. To touch the boards of a church that my Genealogy is important to me. I love the search for gg-grandfather donated, or see the old oak tree just one more generation, one more ancestor, one where my grandfather played, or the old outhouse more bit of information that just confirms… I do where my father had to go in the winter, these are have ROOTS. just very centering experiences for me.”

I found others have similar tales and Genealogy is interesting, and fulfilling and similar reason for searching for past family memaddicting but today it is so much easier to find than bers. Here are a few … ever before. From web sites like FamilySearch.org “Personally, I do it to try to see where I came from. or Ancestry.com to source lists like Cindy’s List that When I found out that I am partly descended from includes over 300,000 other sources for those a Scottish searching for ancestors.

Clan, it There is local help too. The Church of made clear Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (252-638-8410) why my famhas volunteers and a Library that has access to ily is loud, everything Salt Lake City has. argumentative and very clannish. Being from a clan is also the The New Bern Public Library is a wonderful reason we move in groups. If one family member source of local research and don’t forget Craven moves, the whole family moves within a few County Genealogical Society of NC that meet years.” every 2nd Tuesday at 1207 Forrest Dr. New Bern (www.cravengenealogy.org) One of the most common reasons is this one, “I also like to walk where my ancestors Find Your Story and Connect To Your Roots

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