Greetings!
My name is Mary Blizzard Howell and I am the owner and administrator of this site. It was created using My Heritage, com which is a great system that allows anyone like you and me to create a private site for their family----to build their Family Tree and to share events in their life and family photos. You can manually upload your photos, if you wish or email them from your cell phone. Instructions on how to do so is on this page. I would be delighted if you would share your family photos with everyone.

If you have any comments or feedback about this site please email me at stormykc381@aol.com  or angelmenterprise@aol.com to contact me . You may also invite other nembers of our family if they're not already a registered member. Feel free to browse through the list of names and look at all your ancestors as well as the allied families they married into.

This is an ongoing work as I have a great deal of data to put into our site and I'll be working on it weekly, I have traced our Tree back to the 13th century in some cases and new babies are being born daily, and I have many photos of my own to upload.  So come by and pay a visit often to keep up with all that's going on.

I also have a second Family web site that I have created with Tribal Pages. The format is a bit different from My Heritage but I like them both so I'll be using them both so our family history will be in more than one place. I'll be sending invitations to all our members to join this great site, too.

If you have events or anything you would like to see on either site please contact me or my co--administrator, Marina Phipps, my daughter at RinasTaz @aol.com, and we'll be glad to add it..

I want to thank Patsy Hittle Gore and Jonita Sommers for their invaluable contribution to the Luster Family section which is about my children's paternal grandmother, Georgia Luster Garrow Noah  Holt, and also Shirley Pierce for so much information on the family of my deceased sister--in--law, Kathy Pierce Blizzard as well as to cruisingcathy on ancestry.com for so much info on the Garrow/Gareau French background.

Thanks to my new cousin,  Lawton Durden ll,  for all the extra info on the Durden Family.  Much of our research coincided very well and he had some I didn't have. I look forward to working with you, Lawton.  Be patient with me, I have a lot to put on here and don't type very fast so keep checking.  I am entering a lot of info on many of our ancestor's profiles so  everyone is encouraged to click , at least briefly, on each name to see what is written, starting with Elias De Duerden and Giles Blizzard. Our ancestors had a varied and fascinating life and it would behoove each member to learn from them just how fortunate we really are today.  You cannot know who you are today until you learn where you came from!  Some ask why I do this--here is the answer.  

                          Why?

In  each family there is one who seems to be 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.

To me 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 if it were in our genes. Those who have gonebefore cry out to us:  "Tell our Story."  So we do.

In finding them, we somehow  find ourselves. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing about a cemetery about to be lost forever, too. Weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen.  The bones here are bones of my bone, flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something abone it. 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, their losses and building a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a nation.

It goes to a deep and immense never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on understanding that they were doing it for us. 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 them and they are us.  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 that call and take their place in the long line of Family Story Tellers. That is why I do my genealogy and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.                              Author Unknown

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