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“To print what I can remember about my life, it may be useful for some school history projects, or for your knowledge of our families.”

“There is mention of a daughter who died as an infant. Herb thought she was born and buried in Germany, but Ella Marie said there was a girl's name on the family grave at Grace Lawn cemetery in Elkhart.”

“Dad built this house around 1908. Our deed indicates the land was part of an area bought from a chief of the Potawatomi, who signed the deed with his mark.”

“My dad was a hard, angry man my whole life. My grandmother used to say she sent a boy off to the war and got back an angry man. I never knew about the heroism, or the trauma, he carried home from the beaches at Normandy, until I read our family history on Lineage. It changed how I see my father, and it healed something in me I could feel but never had words for.”

“All we had was the family Bible, passed down for generations, and the stories that came with it. Now we can trace our family back to two families from the American Revolution, and further still, to the people who first brought us to these shores.”

“When my father passed, all I had was a box of his notes and some old photos. I had no idea how far back we went until I started working with Lineage. They connected the dots, relative by relative, all the way to the exact town in rural Scotland our people came from. I feel connected to something so much bigger than myself now. Thank you, Lineage.”

“Finally we have a place to tell our story and pass it down to our grandchildren, so they know their true roots and where they came from. So much of this is lost to time when it isn't archived properly. Now I have a digital home to show my children, and their children's children, for generations to come.”