![]() Most researchers are more than happy to pay the fee just for the opportunity to hold a copy of an old record or document that bears the name or signature of a long, lost relative. More and more federal and state archives are digitizing their repositories of early records and making them available to the general public as a free service or as an alternative revenue source. Given that on average we are only remembered for one or two generations at best, it is no wonder that they hold no significance in our daily lives.įamily genealogy has become extremely popular with the advent of the internet. Resurrecting generations of family members who have long ago been forgotten and whose very existence was kept secret by the lack of family lore regarding their lives and contributions. Keeping the memory of others alive would be a fair and accurate description of what my research over the past several years has been. Someone said long ago, “You live as long as you are remembered”, and so this book is a portal to the past, please visit them often so that their memory will last. This book is now their resting place, they live between its pages follow them across the ages. But alas, someone questioned, perused and pried and resurrected the ashes of those who have died, so that you may pay honor and above all take pride. Visited by few and appreciated by none, their sacrifices and struggles gone unsung. For four hundred years and more their memory has slept in dusty books and yellowed pages archived by dates, gender and ages. But most importantly, I have given life again to those so long ago forgotten so that you may know something of them no matter how small or insignificant it may seem but realizing all the while that if it were not for them you would not live the life you live or dream the dreams you dream. Like wind scattered embers of a once raging fire carried to places known only to time itself I have gathered the fragments of lives once whole and like a giant puzzle assembled them for all to see and know. From the start The John Reeder Family Association
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