Know Your Past To Know Your Future

One of my many hobbies that I have acquired over the years is tracing my family history.  It started out as a favor for my "Granny Gore"...Goldie Marie Austin Gore.  She wanted to find out some more things about her family history....something further back than the origin of Kingston, Arkansas, that she was aware of.

Her husband, Lawrence Madison Gore, had someone in his family do a short family tree for a school project years before and they had found this to be a source of pleasure and discussion for them both as well as the rest of our family members.

So, we began our trek by going back to visit Kingston, Arkansas...Granny, my mother Norma, and myself.  That was around 25 years ago.  Since then, and through the wonders of the Internet and other family connections, I've found some interesting connections and stories.

So, I've started this blog to begin to write it all down.  I hope to be able to go on to actual visits to the "home sites" of my ancestors, possibly meet descendants, and generally just learn more about my family history.  I've always been a history buff, and I've always believed that to know where you are going you have to know where you have been.  I am looking forward to learning about each member and discovering how their choices affected my life.