This site was created by Jacqueline Elaine Nix Griffin for the purpose of 
letting other family members see what I have collected for several years. If 
anyone has photos or other information that you would like to be included on 
this website, please contact me with the info and I will be glad to include 
the information on this website. Some of the information on this website has 
not been proven to be true. If when veiwing this website you find something 
that is not correct, please contact me with the correct information and I will 
correct this.  Hope you enjoy surfing through our family tree and don't forget 
to browse through the pictures in the Photos section.  Please sign my 
Guest Book and please let me know what you think about this website. I have 
put in many hours on this website and have enjoyed every minute of that time. 
Look forward to hearing from many relatives out there. 

I am always trying to add new information and photos to this website so visit 
often to see what changes have been made. If there is not a picture of you on 
this site and you would like to have one, please email the picture or maybe 
several pictures to me and I will be glad to put them on the website.  It is 
nice to have pictures to go along with the information about the person. If 
you have changes that you would like to be made or maybe some additions 
(marriage or births) to whatever is already there, email me with the 
information and I will be glad to put that on this website.  Enjoy your visit. 

Jacqueline Nix Griffin



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Some family trees bear beautiful leaves, but others just have a bunch of nuts!!

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Genealogy begins as an interest, Becomes a hobby, Continues as an avocation,
Takes over as an obsession; And in its last stages.....Is an incurable disease....
But such a fun disease!!!!!

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IF TEARS COULD BUILD??..

If tears could build a stairway,
And memories were a lane,
I would walk right up to Heaven
To bring you home again.
No farewell's were spoken,
No time for goodbye,
You were gone before I knew it,
And only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness,
And secret tears will flow,
What is meant to me to lose you,
No one will ever know.

Author Unknown

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Circle of Strength 

Our family is a circle of strength and love.
With every birth and every union the circle grows.
Every joy shared adds more love.
Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

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A Genealogist's Prayer

Lord, help me dig into the past
And sift the sands of time
That I might find the roots that made
This family tree of mine.

Lord, help me trace the ancient roads
On which my fathers trod,
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.

Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript,
That's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypt.

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul when I can't find,
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine.

Author Anonymous 

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23rd Psalm for Genealogists

Genealogy is my pastime, I shall not stray
It maketh me to lie down and examine tombstones
It leadeth me into still courthouses
It restoreth my Ancestral Knowledge
It leadeth me in the paths of census records and ships' passenger lists for my 
surnames' sake
Yea, though I walk through the shadows of research libraries and microfilm readers
I shall fear no discouragement, for a strong urge is within me
The curiosity and motivation, they comforteth me
It demandeth preparation of storage space for the acquisition of countless documents
It anointest my head with burning midnight oil
My family group sheets runneth over
Surely, birth, marriage, and death dates shall follow me all the days of my life
And I shall dwell in the house of a family history-seeker forever.

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