As the result of a History project in 1976, my passion for genealogy was born. What started as a simple three generation pedigree chart has unfurled into thousands of leaves on an ever growing family tree. This nearly 40 year journey has brought joy, frustration, satisfaction, and a never ending desire to learn more about the people who make up our past. I truly believe that these individuals shape who and what we are today. We take from them a measure of their strengths, passions, beliefs, sorrows, joy, and love, and we each make of it what we will to become who we are today. In Volume I of...