Re: Hudgins of Person County N.C.
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Re: Hudgins of Person County N.C.
Bebe Fox 11/10/06
John, I copied your data base to this forum without your permission. I am guilty!
I am so sorry as I NEVER SAW YOUR DECLARATION INITIALLY!
If you wish to contact me personally, I am [email protected] .....My hobby is connecting families! That is all I have interest in. The more we share, the more we have to share.
I completely missed the following statement! I am very, very sorry! I hope I am forgiven!
"Stories included on this site are not available for publication in any book or other forum without the written permission of the owner."
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Did you ever think about how many ancestors make up who you are?
Take a look starting with this thought...you have two parents....four grandparents...
gr-grandparents - 8
gr-gr-grandparents - 16
gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 32
gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 64
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 128
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 256
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 512
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 1024
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 2048
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 4096
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 8192
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 16384
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 32768
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 65536
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 131072
gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents - 262144
over a quarter million......it's amazing! Thanks to Chuck Grew for this chart.
In her book "Voices in Your Bloood -- Discovering Identity through Family History" by G. G. Vandagriff, I quote the following:
"Discovering your heritage is a homecoming in the truest sense. The entity that we call "me" is the most recent chapter in a long line of stories, the stories belonging to those who make up our pedigree. Our ancestors have met life's challenges in their own particular ways and in doing so have bequeathed to each of us a uniquely individual heritage. Part of that heritage contains burdens that are difficult and part of it contains our richest blessings.
We all have a past. Down through the ages there was a love, a love between people of different places, different tongues, and different times. That love ultimately created the person that is you. Every name on your pedigree tells a different story. You have thousands of stories in you. Though I have never known these people, I am a part of their posterity, and they have left a rich inheritance for me.
Lastly, perhaps the most important thing that happens to us when we claim our lost heritage is that we gain a unique perspective; we begin to understand what it is to be human, what it is to live a live where we learn from experiences -- grief, sorrow, pain, joy, success, pride and triumph. Entering into our ancestors' emotions, by proxy as it were, we grow in charity and self-knowledge and lessen in fear."