As a genealogist, I want more than just names on a page. I want stories and pictures. Where did they live? What did they eat? Why did they move to this place? Etc etc...and I think most of us are lovers of history and archeology, and just a general infatuation with the days of yore.

We are the chosen. In each family, there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but instead breathing life into all those who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us, "Tell our story". (Tom Dunn)

As a genealogist, I want more than just names on a page. I want stories and pictures. Where did they live? What did they eat? Why did they move to this place? Etc etc...and I think most of us are lovers of history and archeology, and just a general infatuation with the days of yore.

We are the chosen. In each family, there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but instead breathing life into all those who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us, "Tell our story". (Tom Dunn)