although this is not 100% complete i hope everyone enjoys visiting. please 
don't forget to sign the guest book.  and be sure to enjoy this family. Hello 
again, well, I've updated and added names and to make it easy to follow my 
line I have put all names in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.......hope you enjoy it!!!! 
  

__THE GENEALOGIST__

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 to 
feel that somehow they know and approve.

Doing genealogy is not a gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into 
all who have gone before.  We are the storytellers of the tribe. Our genes 
have called us, as it were.  Those who have gone before cry out to us: TELL 
OUR STORY. And so we do.

In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.  How many graves have I stood 
before now and cried?  I have lost count.  How many times have the ancestors 
told 'You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.'  How many times 
have i walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love for me? I cannot 
say.

It goes beyond just documenting facts.  It goes to who I am and why I do the 
things I do.

It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and 
indifference and saying i cannot let this happen.  The bones here are bones of 
my bone and flesh of my flesh.  It goes to doing something about it.

It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish.  How they 
contributed to what we are today.  It goes to respecting their hardships and 
losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and 
build a life for their family.

It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep 
us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing 
it for US.

It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, 
without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we 
can reach.

That we might be born who we are.  That we might remember them.  So we do.  
With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are 
they and they the sum of whom we are.  So, as a scribe called, I tell the 
story of my family.  It is up to that one called in the next generation to 
answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers.

That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and 
old to step up and restore the memory or greet those whom we had never known 
before.

SPECIAL THANKS TO PAT MORRISON FOR ALL THE LUTZ INFO SHE PROVIDED
SPECIAL THANKS TO CAROL PALMER FOR ALL THE TABLER INFO SHE PROVIDED