My Family Web Site

My name is Alva Balter and I started this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows anyone like you and me to create a private site for their family, build their family tree and share family photos. My feelings are, in each family, there is one whoseems called to find the ancestors.To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the familystory 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 beencalled as if it were in our genes. Those who have gone before 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 am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever too. Weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here arebones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. Itgoes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How theycontributed to what we are today.It goes to respecting their hardships, their losses and building a lifefor their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us aNation.It goes to a deep and immense never giving in or giving up, theirresoluteness 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 arethem 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 the calland take their place in the long line of family storytellers.That is why I do my family genealogy and that is what calls those youngand old to step up and put flesh on the bones.Author Unknownhttp://twitter.com/share