My family…I have been researching my family lines since I was in high school.  My grandfather Francis would tell stories about his family on Sunday afternoons when we visited.  He was born in 1876 in Adams County, Ohio and the stories he told were so far removed from the life I knew that I became fascinated with finding out all I could about my family.  Over the years, my search expanded to my mother’s family, the Grays and Boones, and all of the various lines that are connected to one family.  I started out by recording the stories my grandfather told.  Then, I researched the necessary paperwork; birth certificates, death certificates, or marriage certificates, to verify my facts.  This entailed traveling to courthouses, libraries, genealogy societies, and cemeteries.  Not only did I gain needed paperwork, but an appreciation for where my ancestors came from and what they lived through.  Needless to say, I have gathered a roomful of information on my families and many others that share the same roots. 
--Melody

My family…my family research started when I found my Grandfather Dinser’s small bible, my father had become the keeper of this and inside I had found many remembrance cards. Some of these cards were familiar and some were not. Melody recommended that I research these individuals, with this new found information I had found my Dinser family was from Germany and established roots in Kenton County Kentucky. The search did not stop there, my mother’s family, Frakes and Yelton’s, are from the Grant and Pendleton Counties of Kentucky and her ancestors were in the Revolutionary War. Much of my research has been done on the internet through family sites and through census records obtained at the library.  The internet is a continually evolving source of information, but I still verify all information I find with copies of documents.  I continually find new information and research with much enthusiasm.
--Theresa