Over the years, I’ve accumulated a lot of information and photos from our family tree.  But I’ve wanted to do something besides the bare skeleton of who begat whom, who married whom, and who was from where.  My mother was a great font of family stories, but often I either wasn’t paying attention, or have since forgotten. This is also true of my wife’s family.  This is my attempt to flesh out some of the bare facts with family stories, photos, and other ephemera so they won’t disappear completely from the family, even if they aren’t all true.  It’s my hope that I can encourage more family members to contribute additional stories so we can learn more about where we came from, what we did there, and why we wound up where we are.