I have been obsessed with the desire of preserving one's family heritage since I was a little bitty girl in the 70s. I've always had a curiosity/fascination with knowing what was "between the dashes" of a birth and death date on a tombstone, what each life represented to someone else.
I was SO very blessed to have had grandparents and many older relatives around me growing up in Cullman County Alabama, who made life seem like a "Mayberry World" and helped to build that foundation of respecting and fondly remembering the past. What stories they could remember about things from as far back as 1915. Even if they couldn't remember what they did yesterday, they could still weave those wonderful stories of olden days and I loved hearing them like each time was the first I had ever heard them! Yearly decorations, when loved-ones were honored with fresh, new flower arrangements and all-day get-togethers with "dinner on the ground" at church and big family reunions (things that are SADLY becoming a thing of the past) were a HUGE part of cultivating the love I now have for some of what Find-A-Grave represents.
The desire (bug) to research his ancestry "bit" Scott while he was still teaching High School and we have been working "on and off" now for the last 16 years or so.
The family lines I am currently researching, as time permits, are: Cheatham, Payne, Adair, England, Nicholson, Miller, Dial and Houston (filling in all the branches of my tree from Thomas Cheatham I, Marmaduke Cheatham, etc. down to my great-grandfather, Homer Lester Cheatham) father's paternal side, for example. (Primarily settling in North Central AL)
Maternal side: Drummond/Parker, Godwin/Lacks, Lindsey, Myers, Sandlin, Stewart and Childers.
FOR MY HUSBAND, SCOTT: we are researching Thompson, Thomason, Southern, Callahan, Franklin, Eades, Isbell, St. John, Karr, Smith, etc... of St. Clair, Talladega, and Calhoun counties/vicinities and others who migrated from places like Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia to settle in Alabama in the early 1800s.

I have been obsessed with the desire of preserving one's family heritage since I was a little bitty girl in the 70s. I've always had a curiosity/fascination with knowing what was "between the dashes" of a birth and death date on a tombstone, what each life represented to someone else.
I was SO very blessed to have had grandparents and many older relatives around me growing up in Cullman County Alabama, who made life seem like a "Mayberry World" and helped to build that foundation of respecting and fondly remembering the past. What stories they could remember about things from as far back as 1915. Even if they couldn't remember what they did yesterday, they could still weave those wonderful stories of olden days and I loved hearing them like each time was the first I had ever heard them! Yearly decorations, when loved-ones were honored with fresh, new flower arrangements and all-day get-togethers with "dinner on the ground" at church and big family reunions (things that are SADLY becoming a thing of the past) were a HUGE part of cultivating the love I now have for some of what Find-A-Grave represents.
The desire (bug) to research his ancestry "bit" Scott while he was still teaching High School and we have been working "on and off" now for the last 16 years or so.
The family lines I am currently researching, as time permits, are: Cheatham, Payne, Adair, England, Nicholson, Miller, Dial and Houston (filling in all the branches of my tree from Thomas Cheatham I, Marmaduke Cheatham, etc. down to my great-grandfather, Homer Lester Cheatham) father's paternal side, for example. (Primarily settling in North Central AL)
Maternal side: Drummond/Parker, Godwin/Lacks, Lindsey, Myers, Sandlin, Stewart and Childers.
FOR MY HUSBAND, SCOTT: we are researching Thompson, Thomason, Southern, Callahan, Franklin, Eades, Isbell, St. John, Karr, Smith, etc... of St. Clair, Talladega, and Calhoun counties/vicinities and others who migrated from places like Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia to settle in Alabama in the early 1800s.