That's a wind-driven pump in the background, used to provide water for the livestock. Welcome to the Tunnell and Hootman Family Genealogy page. Mark's the name. Genealogy's the game. To me, it's a fascinating jig-saw puzzle.
Some pieces are easy to find, some are quite hard, with lots of missing pieces all over the place.
Although the game can never be completed, the pieces we have are parts of ourselves, our past, the forebears who brought us to the table of life. Without each one of them having lived, and breathed, struggled and survived, I wouldn't be here, and neither would you. I want to know more about the people on these pages than just their vital statistics. I wonder what their lives were like, what mattered to them, and what forces made some of them decide to leave their native land, risk everything, and become pioneers in a wilderness. I believe that our appreciation of what we have today as the result of their efforts will be much keener and our lives will be the richer for knowing this.