My Mother's Bloodline

Below is a copy of every thing I have on the ancestors of my mother, Karen Leigh Christian. I'd love any info you have regarding any persons pertaining to my mothers tree. I would be more than happy to provide any knowledge I have to any persons you are researching. I love to make connections with people or just share information. Thanks.

Some of my digital pages

Here are a few digital pages I did using Scrapbook Factory Deluxe. What do you think?

ZLM & Company

I finally decided on a name after pouting for several days because the one I originally had picked out was taken. *sad face* It took me a while, but, I named my business ZLM & Company. You like? I had a million other names but they all really sucked. This was the best one I could think of, but I'm sure that's because I compared everything I came up with, to the original name. So now that I got that out the way, I'm back to building my business. YAY!!!

Need New Company Name...HELP

So I was trying to build a website, which I have no idea how to do, and I was registering my domain name, Legacypreservation.com, turns out there is already a company that has that name. They publish your family story (written by you) for you. This really sucks big time because Legacy Preservation fit so nicely with my company and what I do. Scrapbooking+Genealogy=Legacy Preservation, see what I'm saying. So perfect, yet so not happening. I am verry mad right now and would really love the current Legacy Preservation to go out of business like tomorrow. Yes, I am hate'n right now. But now I need a new company name. Which is NOT easy to come up with. I feel like screaming right now. you know what, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!, there I feel slightly better after my virtual scream. Now I must set to work coming up with a new name for my company, than register it immediately. Going to bed mad is never good, but its late and I can't help that my blood is boiling with anger that I cant have what I want. If I was 2 I'd be on the floor kicking and screaming right now, but I'm not so off to bed I go.

Sharp books

I checked out "How to do Everything Genealogy" by George G. Morgan from my local library yesterday, in hopes that I would come across some good info. Well, its packed with websites and examples, the only problem is its paperback that has been laminated and the edges of the cover are so sharp I keep scratching my forearms on it. I don't mean little scratches that just leave a white mark. I'm talking bright red scratches that come up off my arm. This is causing me not to want to read the book. People are going to think I recently tried to kill myself via cutting. Dennis (my hubby) told me to read with the oven mitts on, which I'm sure would work but how irritating is that going to? Plus, I'd have to take my mitt off every time I wanted to turn the page. So now I'm out of ideas and will probably have deep scratches on my arms for the next week or so until I finish the book. So, if you see my arms looking all messed up please know I am not a cutter, I just have a violent library book.

The Chosen

"The Chosen"



We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."



by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."


I Love this!!!!!