Okay, I finally did it. I have been on an incredibly journey over almost two years searching for my ancestors and I kept telling myself, I needed to document this. You need to write this information down and document the process, not only what I learned about the people who came before me, but how I felt as I made these discoveries. How this whole process has affected my life has been absolutely incredible. Until I started searching, I was under the impression that I would never know anything about my lineage beyond my grandparents. Being of African-American descent you think...oh hey, it's just not possible due to slavery to find anything out. And then August of 2009, I started asking questions of my parents. I started looking on-line through records and then I was hooked. I could find things out. For the first time I realized, there is information available, I could find out more. Names, faces on old black and white photos that suddenly were presented to me from long ago packed a...
Beautiful! What a treasure to have. Thanks for the photo editor info as well Andrea, I will try it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Victori! I hope you have fun playing around with the photo editor as well.
DeleteYou all are a cute bunch and there is way more hair here than I would have in 4 similar photos :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Kristin :)
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