I feel like I have always wanted to do my family tree. I was blessed to have a grandmother who kept scrapbooks of family information tracing back to the early 1940's. The grandmother who I am referencing is Eunice Coulter Lloyd. We lived next door to each other in the early 2010's and as she was nearing her early 90's .I knew that I had to get down to business and capture as much of our family history before it was lost forever. And the countless hours we spent having her reminisce about our heritage is priceless. She was a fountain of information and I had to drink up as much as I could. I had always been close to my Grandma Lloyd and knew that if she had spent that much time and desire to clip each and everyone one of those pieces of our family history and carefully paste them in those books then she and I could take the adventure together. After reading all of those clippings I started the exciting steps to add each one to Ancestry.com.
I can still see the excitement on her face when I was able to show her on my computer all of the documented people from the yellowed pages of those scrapbooks. I added all of the photos to each person on the branches of our tree that she gave me to upload. The tears in her eyes was my reward as I as presented it to her. My grandmother is gone now ,but she was fully aware that because of both of our desires to try and preserve our family heritage, we had a tree started. Our family tree has now grown to over 39,000 people and as anyone else knows who has taken this same journey, it is the excitement to find out as much as possible about each and everyone one of them. It is all in life that really does truly matter.....FAMILY. :) Please feel to reach out to me thru my email address with any family connections you feel we may have or feel I can help you with.