I am dedicating my site to all of you who have given me encouragement, inspiration and even the tiniest bit of information up to including taking hours searching for that information, to turning over to me your life's work in genealogy without hesitation in order to help me find my roots. Your generosity and thoughtfulness overwhelms me with joy. This is my bliss.

My husband, my friend, has helped me immensely in my search supporting me, walking cemeteries, waiting for me in libraries, mailing packages of information, helping me with endless computer problems; but most of all, endlessly discussing any aspect of my research that I want to talk about any time I choose.

I want to say to personally those who have received information from me which I have spent hours preparing for you and who have never given me a word of acknowledgement that you received it and sometimes never a “thank you” for the receipt if acknowledged; and to those who have told me that they would send me information and never did, ‘tis a pity!

So as not to scold too much those who may have been too busy to send a word of thanks, I may have made the same mistake, but it has never been my intent to be ungrateful. If I have not thanked anyone, I am extremely sorry if this has happened, because it is not my intent. My intent is to give, give, give to all who request information from me and I believe I have fulfilled that intent.

--- And to those family members who have chosen to keep family information, pictures and the location of family members private from me, if you are reading this now and benefiting by my loving labors, it is your attitude that has prompted me to find my heritage.

A very close relative said to me, “Isn’t it funny that you didn’t have a family and have spent so much time searching for one.”

Horace Mann said, "A house without books is like a room without windows." "A house without good will is not a home." I saw neither books nor good will in the homes I grew up in.

 

John Randall
taking rubbings on
Pritchard gravestones