This issue began during mild winter days, but was interrupted a couple times by some turbulent weather in old Kentucky. Winter is flowing into spring as you receive these pages. This issue has a fine assortment of stories and records from all over our area including an old Breckinridge County cemetery, stories of an early rifle maker from Bullitt County some of whose descendants moved on to Indiana and who had connections to both Jefferson and Hardin Counties, Kentucky; reminiscences of an old, no longer existing town in Meade County, a story of a hanging in Nelson County with ties to Harrison County, Indiana; death records in Hart County, an old obituary for a LaRue County native son who "made good" in the medical annals of our country. These stories, records and lists will serve as good reminders to all members that each of us may have a story to tell, a list to contribute, or an abstract to make in preserving our family histories. It is continually amazing to discover the connections that can be made.
I've seen the "call to papers" plea in other quarterlies, and want to issue the same to all of our readers. Your editors do not write the stories in these pages, YOU DO and YOUR FAMILIES HAVE. You have the seeds of a good story there in all your research, PLEASE SHARE THOSE STORIES WITH US. As Nancy Ludlow is hoping to find another Fidler researcher, you might be able to provide a connection for another member who has come up against a brick wall. Consider that the Bible records you have at home might also hold the records for another member's ancestor. Possibly you could be holding onto a copy or an abstract of an old deed that gives proof of family connections or a place of origin for a common ancestor. You could have a collection of old obituaries that your mother collected from long ago. Do you have some old yellowed letters tied up in ribbon that can tell of an old grandmother's experiences on the trail or in the fields?
Without these items Ancestral News will have no contents, for the editors are just the folks who enable the stories to be told. Let us hear from you. Thank you, to the members who came forward to help type and index these pages. We could not have produced this issue without them. One lives in Casey County, Kentucky, a couple live in Hardin County, Kentucky. Another lives in California. The U.S. mail and the Internet have been busy with our correspondence. Hurrah! Enjoy! Happy Spring!
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