Go where the ancient pathway guides
See where our sires laid down
Their smiling babes, their cherished brides,
The patriarchs of the town:
Hast thou a tear for buried love?
A sigh for transient power?
All that a century left above.
Go read it in an hour!
-Oliver Wendall Holmes

I've been working on our family history since about 1991.  While I'm hardly an 
expert, I've gotten pretty good at learning where ancestors lived and what 
they were doing through locating public records.  Usually I get a lead on an 
ancestor through a distant cousin's pedigree.  Then I'm off on a search of the 
marriage, birth, death or census records sharing with my newfound cousin(s) 
all along the way.  The wealth of information provided by others is 
immeasurable. I couldn't have gone anywhere near this far back without other's 
family trees.  

One thing I've learned by all this is that the more distant cousins that I 
discover or who discover me, the more I realize that we are all related.  If 
good genealogical records had always been kept, I bet that could be proven.  

I named my web site Strangers & Cousins because until we meet, that's just 
what we are, Strangers & Cousins. So, Cuz, hop on board and take a trip down 
memory lane herein.  

If you have additional information about our ancestors, or every bit as 
important, any corrections, by all means let me know.  I'll be most 
appreciative since as anyone who does family research knows, this is an 
ongoing process, a labor of love, that never ends because we are living 
history and so are our children, and our grandchildren and so on.  

Mahalo for stopping by!  Please sign my Guest Book so I know you've visited.