Since I am going to start over, I figured this time I would concentrate on one family line at a time. All of you know what I speak of when I say that as we search we come across so many things that leads us into so many different directions that makes it hard to stay on track of that one line. I will probably go off the track a couple of times , I can't say that I won't but i am going to concentrate on my paternal surname Lemons. My mother is actively researching her own maternal surnames Rittenberry, Mccloud, Rittenberry and Crook , so I will cocentrate on my father's side.
I will start out with my grandfather Johnny E. Lemons. I know when he was born, married, and when he passed. I know the locations and who his parents are. With my grandmother Imogene Cunningham, I also know the same information. Luckily growing up we lived basically right next door to my grandparents and I miss them every day, but that is another story. We have always lived in a small community so people know us and they knew my grandparents. That is the good thing about small towns and the small communities that some of us live in. We have grown up with these people, and they have shared our joys and our sorrows and they are a great wealth of information if we just stop and talk to them every once in a while.
I was also lucky enough to have boxes of information from my father's line. I have old pictures, newspapers clippings, and obits that his cousins had clipped from newspapers. I have a family Bible from the same cousins, along with books on the county and on the community of which we live. I have all of this stuff but yet none of it is labeled or put in the right places on the computer or transcribed and the info extracted. I do have a lot of work cut out in front of me, but I have to say, I look forward to every bit of it.
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