Why and when did you start on family history? (General)

by llangrove, Thursday, January 15, 2009, 04:44 (5864 days ago) @ seanwatkinsuk

I began researching my maternal line 26 years ago. True Yankees, who landed on these shores in the mid 1700's, their trail was fairly well documented and researched by others. But it was my paternal line that really interested me! My grandfather was tight lipped about most of his past, except for the mention of a few cousins. One evening I stumbled onto the FoD Genealogy Pages site and noticed a post mentioning, STEPHENS, in West Virginia. I wrote to the author and he kindly put me into contact with Mike Gwilliam, who assits many regularly, on this site. Mike supplied me with enough info to set me on the right path, to find my HAWKINS/STEPHENS Forest roots. In 2007 I was able to visit the graves of my G-g-grandparents....oh what a feeling!

I'll always be grateful to so many generous, helpful and truly nice people (like Mike, Slowhands, Julie H. and Mostyn...I could go on and on) who were/are willing to take the time to assist me. And of course a great big "shout out" to our board administrator, Mr. David Watkins, who has supplied us with this wonderful venue. Thank you, David! Bless you all!

Cynthia Hawkins Wood
Pennsylvania U.S.A.