Great Great Grandmother Julia
Taken about 1916 Durant OK

Well lately I have been interested in finding out my roots. Genealogy has been kind of curiosity thing but with the internet and all the new info added daily it is easier than ever. I joined a ancestry website a few months back and boy has it been worth it. In fact through that site I was actually able to find a cousin I never met and with the info in his tree I gained a wealth of information over night. There happened to be some cousins nearby and I was even able to meet up with them. They were actually cousins my dad remembered from his childhood years in Oklahoma so theres was actually a fact of being reunited. It was pretty neat to be able to do that. Anyway, through my online cousin I was excited to see pic's of family that I had only ever heard stories about. It was pretty exciting to be able to go back so many generations and see similarities in physical attributes in myself and other family members. I think at this point I have already been able to trace back my dad's mom's side of the family to about 1800. My great great grandmother come to find out was a full blood american indian. She went to register with the Dawes rolls (or something of that nature) and was told that she was one day to late. How frustrating and sad for her. But anyway, I thought it pretty cool to say, "Hey she looks like me!" LOL ~Til next time DEB

DEB taken May 2006