My name is Don Smith. I have a passion for history and am fascinated with my ancestral heritage. I’ve been researching our family ancestry since 1978. It started off with short discussions with grandparents and their siblings. Some of it led me on wild goose chases (wrong last names, swapping this ancestor’s first and middle name with another), and with a lot of Czech (Moravia) ancestry, a lot of typos. All done on paper. 

In 2005, I started using Broderbund’s Family Tree Maker. These were the days of an installed client and CDs shipped to your house. It was almost like Blockbuster, only with a Genealogy database.

 

Later, I created a family genealogy website on GeoCities, only to have Yahoo buy it and eventually shut it down.

 

I started using Ancestry.com then and have been using it ever since. I now have more than 6,000 names in our tree and have met some great relatives who also have a passion for Genealogy.

 

This is my “New” website. I hope you find it enjoyable. I hope you discover something new. And I hope you can help me add to it.

 

thanks

-don