It had to start somewhere.

This is only half!!  This is the half I am in along with my immediate family. It's a typical family tree. Or is it?  I have only one piece of advice.  If you can't handle the information you find in your family tree, then don't go there.  I mean, don't create a family tree if you can't handle and deal with the truth.  There is nothing more heartbreaking than family secrets.  And there are family secrets in each and every family tree out there on Ancestry.  I will explain.  

I started doing my genealogy in 1997.  That was the year my daddy died.  He was an only child who was raised by his aunt.  His father's sister.  Emily Louella Scripture was her name.  

My daddy died on January 1st 1997 in the wee hours of the morning.  He had donated his body to science so we made the phone call for them to come pick him up and waited for their arrival.  That's how it happens. There was no actual funeral which was what he wanted.  We held a memorial service and that was it.  But...we knew that was what he wanted and we were ok with it.  He had fought cancer three times (bowel, lung, and bladder) and finally decided he didn't want to fight any more.  We respected that.  His wishes were important to us.  

He left us each an inheritance.  I was one of three girls.  He had a daughter, Gay.  Momma had a daughter, Phyllis. and I am the only product of their marriage.  So I had two half sisters.  They each had a half sister and a step sister.  Sounds like as good a reason to get involved in genealogy as I could think of.  

I bought a computer.  My first ever.  A cannon!  Cannon is an old Indian word for "you just spent money on junk. (Sorry Cannon) (I mean, who buys a cannon computer anyway???  Camera maybe, but COMPUTER???  NO)

Daddy having been an only child whose last name was Scripture should have been easy to trace.  Well it wasn't.  If you put Scripture in the genealogy search bar, you end up with every scripture reading at every funeral ever held by mankind.  It appears that Scripture is not a common name at all. It made everything quite difficult. 

Since Daddy was an only child, we thought the Scripture line had come to it's end.  We were three girls and knew of no other Scriptures.  I got wise though and put Scripture into the search engine of White Pages.  Lo and Behold.  There were at least 200 other Scripture families out there.  For Real!!  I couldn't imagine having found that.  And there is where it began for me.