This exercise started as a high school genealogy project over 45 years ago, inspired by Alex Haley's Roots book and the TV series based on it that was extremely popular at the time. Like most of us, I was able to identify my siblings and parents, and my grandparents. but was lost beyond that point. My great-uncle Ralph Solon Woolverton was able to provide me with a copy of Bessie A. Strong's chart (created for the 50th anniversary of Solon and Elizabeth Woolverton's wedding anniversary) that showed my own ancestry back to Charles the Immigrant, through his son Dennis. This was updated over the next 20 years using traditional genealogy methods with what I knew at the time and then used both to help other researchers flesh out missing information from their own family trees and vice versa. With the advent of internet access and the ability it gave us to share information with other researchers, there was a new wealth of information that had only been available in a limited way previously.
The net result after all this is that this site currently contains records of more than 40,000 individuals, and is constantly growing. Not too bad for a kid out in the boondocks...
Trece Verde