Saturday, October 13, 2012

Greetings!



Greetings! I am delighted to have you visit my Family Stories Blog. My name is Pamela Sue Hutchison Garrett and I have been researching family history for more than thirty years now.  This Blog is a companion site to my family history database, Family Stories, pamgarrett.com.

I’ve had years now to observe people’s reactions when I say to them, “I have a passion for family history!”  If you speak these words to a like-minded soul, shared experience will tumble forth.  Speaking the same words to the uninitiated usually invites a few moments of polite conversation before moving on to other subjects.  That’s ok, because we all have different interests.   But, there is something about the stories, the family stories that can engage the non-genealogist.
  

This blog is primarily about the family stories.  Some of the stories come from first - hand accounts, diaries and letters. Others are more second – hand, extracted from biographies in county history books, or newspaper obituaries.  There will also be speculative stories interpreted from the social histories of time and place.  Along with the stories there will be plenty of photographs, a few travel-logs and mysteries, and suggestions for further reading.
 

As the Family Stories Blog begins the focus will be on my Clarkson family.  The ancestral families of Richard Albert Clarkson include Jeffries, Chinn, Bramham, Crittenden, Moxley, Consterdine, Anderton, and Clarkson. The ancestral families of his wife, Elizabeth Jane Robinson, include Edmonston, Royce, Van Lear, and Robinson.  Future expansions will look at: Hutchison, Tanner, Garrett, Svejkovsky, Fry, Rowland, Grant, Nichols, Lakin, Markham, Matthews, Fleming, Hutchins, Brooks and many others.

If you enjoy the stories and want to know more about how they relate to your own ancestral past, be sure to visit the family history database, Family Stories, pamgarrett.com.  There are many more stories available there, along with names, dates, documents, census records, deeds, Wills, cemetery records  . . .  (on and on) . . .

I have a passion for family history!!

Pam Garrett
October 2012

8 comments:

  1. Welcome to Geneabloggers :) Goodluck with your new blog!

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  2. Olga, thanks for the welcome. Geneabloggers is a great encouragement to a new blogger. I appreciate your visit!

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  3. Welcome to Geneabloggers, I look forward to following your blog.

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    1. Diane, thanks for welcoming me to Geneabloggers. The blogging world is totally new to me, and I have much to learn. I made a visit to your 'Family Stories' and 'The Other Half' - enjoyed reading. I love your header photo on the Family Stories Blog. Thanks.

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  4. Welcome to Geneabloggers! I think you'll really enjoy it.

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    1. Heather, thanks for your welcome. I'm looking forward to 'maturing' my blog with the encouragement of Geneabloggers. I visited your Leaves for Trees blog and really appreciated the post on Evernote for Genealogy. I can see this as a very useful tool for organizing research for blog posts. Thanks for the tip!

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  5. Hi Pam!

    Thank you for your comment on the Thomas Tew postings at The Prism! With a possible connection to NY Colonial Governor Fletcher and a known NY ancestor, do you have many New England roots too?

    I see you began your blog a few months before I started mine. I am joining your site today. I too,have a passion for family history!"

    John

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  6. John,

    I'm delighted to have you join the Family Stories Blog. I do have some interesting New England ancestors, but I must confess that my many years of family history research have focused more on my early Virginia family. I am trying to discipline myself to get my work, to this point, online. But, I hope to return to researching before too long. I am determined to dig deeper into my New England ancestry. Thanks for your comment! I look forward to reading along with your Prism Blog.

    Pam Garrett

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