The storytellers,We are the chosen ones,
My feelings are in each family there is
One who seems called to find the Ancestors?
To put flesh on their bones and make them live again,
To tell of their family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve,
To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering facts but, instead
Breathing life into all who have gone before,
We are the storytellers of the tribe`s Family History.
All tribes have one or two or even three,
We have been called as it were by our very assents of our being,
Those who have gone before cry out to us,
Tell our story remember who we were,
In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.
How many graves have i stood before, I have lost count,
How many times have i told the Ancestors you have a wonderful family?
You would be proud of us,
How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was
Love there for me, I cannot say,
It goes beyond just Documenting facts our endless hours of search.
It goes to who I am. And why do I do the things I do?
I am a storyteller passed down from my grandfather Elisha Jack Wright,
Born To James Thomas Wright And Mary Ann Pruitt in Missouri 1892,
It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference
And saying I can`t let this happen, we need to stand United and take care of
our dead,The bones here are bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh,
It goes to doing something about it.
It goes to pride in what our Ancestors were able to accomplish,
How they contributed to what we are today,
It goes to respecting their hardships and losses. Their giving in or
Giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family,
It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Natshions.
It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us.
That we might be born who we are .To be Born in A world of Pride and safety and
to be Free.
That we might remember them,
So we do with love and caring and scribing each fact of their Existence Each
trail we push on, each censer`s record we search,
Because we are them and they are us.
So, as a scribe called, this generation (delladarnell) I will tell the story of
our family history.
It is up to the next. One called in our generation to answer the call
And take their place in the long line of family storytellers.
For i have done the ground work for the start of the new scribe,
That is why i do my family genealogy, and that is what calls
Those young and old to step up and put flesh on those bones.
I know you will all endeavor to Live up to Their expectations of you
You have with in you the blood of great pioneer stock.
From the labors of your ancestors came this land we call home.
                             AMERICA.