“From These Roots We Came”

Every ancestor in our pedigree tree was necessary for us to be here today. Whatever their trade, religion, race, language; if they had not existed, neither would we. Whether the ancestors were good or bad is irrelevant. Whether they were rich or poor is irrelevant. Whether they were educated or […]

Today I placed a another link on the blogroll to the right which goes directly to the RossTribe.Com Family Web Site. It is a site initiated today to keep in touch with and provide a service to the descendants of James McClellan Ross (Ahn 4) and Esther Lou Owens (Ahn 5), my grandparents.
Those direct descendants […]

This site treats all the direct ancestors of me; my father Elmer M Ross (Ahn 2), his parents, James McClellan Ross (Ahn 4), and Esther Lou Owens (Ahn 5); and my mother Mary Ruth Long (Ahn 3), and her parents John Bertie Long (Ahn 6) and Nannie Grace Lewis (Ahn 7).
The history which I have […]

A friend recently sent me an email with a link to a poem that is so appropriate for a family genealogy blog. The written poem is set to music and beautiful landscapes. It refers to the “dash” between the birth date and the death date seen on gravestones and other sources relating to a […]

One of the goals I have had for many years was to have a website which specialized in the provision of help for “amateur” genealogists, who make up the majority of the world’s genealogical researchers. All you have to do to see the need for this is to get on some of the […]

Today I added a page with the will of Moses Washington Kennedy (Ahnentafel # 34). I tried to format it as close to the original as possible, but the limitations of doing this short of a PDF file made an exact representation impossible. However, it is formatted as close to the original as […]

When James Ross (Ahnentafel # 16) married Esther Kennedy (Ahnentafel # 17) on 12 Sep 1850 in Guernsey County, Ohio we gained a new and in many cases, illustrious branch to our ancestral tree. Under this category, “The Ross and Kennedy Connection”, A new page will be started on the right side page links. […]

Well, you know how it is when the holidays roll around each year. You seem to get busy and don’t do the routine things (like post a blog). I went out of town to visit my daughter in Georgia and the grandkids, and went over to Alabama one day to see my mom. […]