Our mountains are steep and hard to climb but they are a natural barrier from tornadoes and hurricanes. Where I live everyone knows your name. The little community is just like any other I guess, but this one is special, I belong to it. The interest in genealogy today is a good thing. We need to be bound together as families.
Family ties give unity and strength.
Knowing about the faith, loyalty, courage and patience that our forefathers had in maintaining their homes, helps to inspire today's people. What we now have, cleared valleys, tilled fields, schools, churches and homes, we have because of the courage and determination of those who lived here before us. We are here because they did not give up or turn back. As we learn of the strength they had to endure, we will have more of a will to preserve that for which they paid so great a price. God planned for people to live by families.