464- YOUR FAMILY?....WHO WAS YOUR WONDERFUL, To-Get To Know, GREAT-GRANDMOTHER?.....

A) And I discovered that my great-grandmother's name was---ESTHER! This researcher even uncovered an early photograph of her and have pondered a bit on what she was like, how her voice sounded. Also, uncovered a series of handwritten diaries from my great-grandfather, John Marshal Steffey, with his full 1894-style beard. Found, too, the basement ruins, with floor plan, of their late 1800s homeplace. With the help of a relative's recollections as a child, pieced together what that neat 1-1/2 story home was life. So, a detailed model of my early ancestor's homeplace was fasuoned from balsawood, one of my hobbies. Over twenty (20) detailed, scaled models of local buildings and Virginia barns have been created!
B) My aim and goal, though, is to influence YOU in uncovering YOUR ancestral background...folk! THAT is another secret to slipping excitement into YOUR life!
C) In case you've ever had a bit of curiosity about where you came from, why not take the first steps, yourself, and begin that looong journey into uncovering your ancestral family! Better yet, ask a relative to join your search. This guy, as a little boy, was introduced to building Tuco puzzles, learning needed skills in life, like sticking to a puzzle, project, until completed...focusing intensively upon, often, just one needed piece...learning to visualize the total picture AND how it would eventually be when completed!
And that puzzle skill, yes, carried over into my search for my family going waaay back.
D) Again, my goal is to influence YOU into searching for YOUR family history. Begin to begin....
E) If nothing more, Google to Ancestry Search/HOW...or head for your fave library to check out one of many possiblities...they're there!
My research partner is a 2nd cousin, Charlotte Ann, from Ohio. She has really gotten into learning how to and uncovering our Steffy/Steffey ancestors. We share....