Relatively few people seem to know their family history even back a couple of generations and unfortunately do not care to know until late in life when all human sources are gone. There must be a time clock that goes off in some of us that causes us to subject ourselves to the frequent frustrations of the endless search but the titillating excitement of success when finding that small morsel of information negates those past failures. All sources that I have explored indicates that nobody in our family has made an effort to preserve for future generations our past. It is this unfortunate finding that I seem to be the designated " FAMILY ARBORIST " in this preservation of our family tree. The journey begins !