http://OurTexasFamily.com
Doris Ross Brock Johnston
Grand Prairie, Dallas Co., TX
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Why we do genealogy
research:
There always comes a time in our lives when suddenly it becomes
important to know where we come from. All those who contributed
to our genetical map are in a certain sense still living inside
ourselves, wherever their physical existence took place. Many
personal questions can be answered with a bit of undigging in
your family's past, in the history, behaviours, customs that
your father and mother took along and left to you, and that you
maybe unconsciously are transmitting to your children, along
with color of hair and eyes.
There's a special thrill when you find something that seemed
lost forever, and maybe would, if you had not cared: genealogy
is the research of our roots, both genetical and cultural. From
the dusty, crumbling papers of documents people who belong to
what you now are come out of the mist of time and look at you
silently, affectionately, waiting for you to decipher their stories,
rescue them from oblivion and pass their as yet forgotten names
and stories on to the next generations.
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“I have gon, and rid,
and rote and sought and searched with my own and friends Eyes,
to make what discoveries I could therein…. And I stand ready
with pencil in one hand and a sponge in the other, to add, alter,
insert, expunge, enlarge, and delete, according to better information,
And if these my pains shall be found worthy to pass a second
impression, my faults I will confess with shame, and amend with
Thankfulness, to such as will contribute clearer intelligence
unto me.…"
Fuller, Worthies
of England (1662).
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