Sharing the Stories

The reason I’m doing this blog is to share information and pictures that have been left to me by my mother. I’m not interested in posting information that is already general knowledge, but I will clarify or correct that information if I can. I love doing the research part of genealogy, and I probably get just as excited as a gold miner when I find a new nugget of information. I can spend hours going through the things my mother left. What I don’t like too much is actually organizing everything that I have found, and that is bad because the knowledge is only in my mind and that will be gone someday. There are times when I get bored, when I hit dead ends, and when I would rather keep researching instead of organizing. Lots of times I wonder why I bother, because most people don’t really care. But last night when I was looking for more information on line, I was hit hard by the fact that I have information that no one else does. I was looking for more information on Walter Frank Gillmore. What I found were 4 or 5 family trees that knew his name and birth date, but none of them knew when he died. If they don’t know when he died, they don’t know the story of where and how he died. There are a number of family letters written around the time of his death that I have, and I know the story of his death. If I don’t tell about it, then the story will be gone, and for the generations to come that might care, they’ll never know. So, I’d better keep on working, and get as much done as I can. I’ll have to find those letters sometime soon and tell his story.