Barbie Michelle Detwiler from Legacy News
With red-haired pigtails and freckles, six-year-old Barbie stood up while the first graders were learning about the Pilgrims and said, "ALL my ancestors came over on the Mayflower!" Little Linda Page thought about it while walking home from George Ellery Hale Elementary in Pasadena, CA. By the time she got home she was crying full-force. Her mother asked what happened and Linda Page explained . . .
With red-haired pigtails and freckles, six-year-old Barbie stood up while the first graders were learning about the Pilgrims and said, "ALL my ancestors came over on the Mayflower!" Little Linda Page thought about it while walking home from George Ellery Hale Elementary in Pasadena, CA. By the time she got home she was crying full-force. Her mother asked what happened and Linda Page explained . . .
. "Well, you don't have to worry, we have a big book full of all your ancestors who were farmers and lawyers and doctors.", her mother said. That satisfied the first grader.
Eight years later, while cleaning out the linen closet in Phoenix, Linda found the 900-page genealogy book, "The Carpenter Memorial of Rehoboth" as it is commonly called.
She looked at Katheryn Carpenter's will in Old English, and thought how boring!
She put it back in the closet.
As a bride, in Las Vegas, NV, she decided to learn about her new husband's family and more of her father's family. They didn't know where they came from in England.
She asked for the "Memorial" to record her mother's side.
Little did she know that she was on a life-long quest of learning about family, history, and geography.
She has met cousins in England and Scotland, and took her husband to the Lutheran church in Epstein, Germany where his fourth Great-Grand Uncle Bartle was baptized.
She has been able to make an historical, pictorial CD for her 90-year-old aunt (her father's sister) where the Hillary's came from (Yorkshire lead miners), and how and why they came to the States.
Genealogy is great way to pull a family together.
Thank you, Barbie, where-ever you are!!!
Eight years later, while cleaning out the linen closet in Phoenix, Linda found the 900-page genealogy book, "The Carpenter Memorial of Rehoboth" as it is commonly called.
She looked at Katheryn Carpenter's will in Old English, and thought how boring!
She put it back in the closet.
As a bride, in Las Vegas, NV, she decided to learn about her new husband's family and more of her father's family. They didn't know where they came from in England.
She asked for the "Memorial" to record her mother's side.
Little did she know that she was on a life-long quest of learning about family, history, and geography.
She has met cousins in England and Scotland, and took her husband to the Lutheran church in Epstein, Germany where his fourth Great-Grand Uncle Bartle was baptized.
She has been able to make an historical, pictorial CD for her 90-year-old aunt (her father's sister) where the Hillary's came from (Yorkshire lead miners), and how and why they came to the States.
Genealogy is great way to pull a family together.
Thank you, Barbie, where-ever you are!!!