My German Roots

What does blood mean?  We take great pride in blooded animals, race horses, hunting dogs, etc.  But so many people seem to care so little about breeding in humans.  We are certainly the sum total of all our background.  In genealogy, we can soon find out we have lots of different people in us.  Each generation we go back, we multiply by two.

Two parents, four grandparents, eight great grand- parents, sixteen three times great, 32 four times, etc. on back.  So no wonder we are each an individual, inheriting in different measure traits of those earlier ancestors. 

Eron M. Sharp, May 20th, 1983

Gertrude Bley Deckert
Circa 1920

MY SURNAMES

 


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