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          Throughout civilization, people are, have been, and always will be curious about their roots, and the ones who bore their family name.

          Historically, names have served as a fingerprint of life, perhaps even a clue to one's personality. Your surname is your possession and identification, because it tells the world who you are.

          Who were those people who gave you your family name? What part of the world did the names come from? Unless we have been especially wise and fortunate, many of our older relatives will have left us before we gleaned their knowledge of our family's past.

          I was not fortunate enough to know all of my grandparents. both of my grandmothers, and one of my grandfathers died before I was born. However, I am fortunate enough to have memories of my one of my grandfathers. Some of the most treasured memories of him were of the many evenings, sitting around the fire, listening to his stories about the old days.

          Several years after Grandfather's death, my Mother, realizing that if she didn't pass along her family cherished memories, they could soon be lost forever, penned a story called I Remember. Then Mother, along with the help of my Father, took the old Family Bible and turned to the Family Records section and recorded as much of the missing information as they could gather. This brought about my first real interest in genealogy. (Here you can see pictures of Dad and Mom.)

          For nearly 150 years after North America was settled, it remained a green wilderness with only a few trails cut through the vast forests.

          As settlers moved inland, they usually followed the paths over which Indians had used for hunting and trading. Also, many trails following valley and river shores, had been worn down in earlier ages by buffalo which had roamed in search of grazing lands.

          Few trails in early America were more important than the Indian route which extended east of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. By a series of treaties with the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the English acquired the use of the Warriors' Path. In 1744 they took over the land itself and the growth of the route became an important chapter in the development of our nation. The path became the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, by which vast number of English, Germanic, and Scotch-Irish settlers entered this continent and claimed lands.

          From the Great Wagon Road, pioneers passed through Cumberland Gap and the Holston River settlement into the territories which became Kentucky and Tennessee. This route, which Daniel Boone opened in 1775, became a route by which the first sizable trans-Appalachian settlements came to statehood.

          Check out our Kentucky Connections page for more facts and Kentucky history and links to Libraries, Universities, Government Agencies, Newspapers, Counties, Parks, and other sites with a Kentucky connection.
         









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