Earl W. Stafford Sr.: A Brief Story Of My Family Tree

Family history is not something students immediately think of when talking about geography, but it is an excellent source of evidence to illustrate, from real life, the patterns we have been learning about in this class. My dad’s side of the family has much more information available and fits better into the migration patterns we have discussed in this class so the focus of this paper will be on his family. On one side, my dad’s family came to Texas from Tennessee in the push west from the Upland South, and on the other side emigrated from Germany through chain migration to Texas.

To start my family origin paper we have to go way back to 1976 when my parents met in Alamo, North Dakota; a town of about 200 people in the northwestern part of the state. They met while going through school playing sports, mainly basketball. Both were pretty good at the sport and won some awards and had chances to play more but decided to get married and start a family instead. Both grew up around the whole farming scene. My mom actually lived on a farm growing up and also as she started her own family. My dad lived in the small town but his grandpa had a farm not far from where he grew up and also helped a lot of the local

There are three slave systems described in this essay. The first was a Northern nonplantation system. The second and third were Southern plantation systems, one around Chesapeake Bay and the other in the lower

This paper summarizes the ancestral immigartion of my primary paternal ancestors. The Thompson surname in itself traces its roots back to Reverend William Thompson (abt. 1598 to abt 1666). Within this paternal lineage are the surnames Willis, Meade, and Stevenson.

When asked to write a story about my family I chose the tale on how my dad and his family came to America in the 1970’s. Acee Jr. along with his younger brother and parents moved to America from Guyana, a country in South America. The reason for the move was to further Acee Sr.’s education in multiple subjects including Psychology and was possible due to the financial help the family received from the church Sr. was a minister at. The story tells of the transition the Chapman family had to make to adjust to the American Life. It also shows the struggles that challenged the family throughout their first couple of years in the States.

This analysis will take a look at the works of three early American writers and how each of their arguments were conceived to match their individual viewpoints. The three writings we will be taking a look at examine how each author in said writings develops an argument based on the text. We will also be examine how each author’s argument is a reflection on Early American culture. We will be reflecting on writings of Benjamin Franklin, Christopher Columbus, and The Native Narrative. Each have a unique perspective on the newly formed American culture and solid arguments to push these ideals.

History isn’t always the glamorous and fast paced events like war, but sometimes it's just explaining things the average Joe might experience during his time on the Earth. This paper will not have any war or conflicts that are life or death for the delicate system of a community, but it's history nonetheless. The History of my family and how it connects to bring us decades later to where we are today.

learn about not only great people in our history, but family. I am proud to say that I am related

You may have already been contacted by your mom or dad. I’m writing to you tonight for a family need. The need is a “Williams” family reunion. The time is right for this. None of us know how much longer we will be around. We need to start this for our Williams family heritage. It’s time that we all take the time and come together for our family love for our kids. They can learn about the Williams family so they can pass it along to their kids. I’m putting myself out there to form a Williams’s family reunion. We have family members that have never met one another. I for one have never met Roberts’s wife or his kids and Theresa or Audrey’s kids. Since we grew up vacationing on the north coast. It would be nice if we all went

My immediate family includes my father Craig, mother Judy, younger sister Chloe, and myself. The heritage of my father’s family originates in Ireland and Denmark. His ancestors came to the United States around 1905. My mother’s family traveled from Germany to America in 1855. My parents married in 1994 in the Saint Patrick Catholic Church where they both grow up, in Montrose, South Dakota. Three years later, I was born at the Avera Mckennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Specifically, I entered the world on April 15, 1997. Six year later my family expanded by the addition of my sister. She was born in the same hospital on July 27, 2003.

But have you thought about passing your love of family history onto the next generation? Sure, you’ve climbed your family tree, but have you passed on what you’ve learned? Looking at a cross-section of a fallen tree, you can see its rings. The closer to the middle

What can documentaries teach us about someone history that we cannot learn from the source? Is there a difference to the history of our people we learn in school to that we hear from an actual research interview? Well, my answer to you is yes. There is a difference of information obtained from the text compared to that obtained from the actual source. Throughout human existence, there has been many documented research conducted by researchers to know the history of mankind. This paper considers questions that immigrants are asked on a daily basis, either by their self or by others. My aim is to conduct a narrative interviewing of research on people from different culture, racial, ethnic and class background, however belonging to the same family tree. Using narrative as a general method of research strategy, I plan to draw information from an African American family who have migrated to the United States of America. With the information, I obtain from both interview and survey I plan to share their story.

Many people have, at least at one point in their lives, had great curiosity about family members who came before them and whom they never met. Many of us have a vague notion that we come from immigrants to America who were fleeing a famine in Ireland or war in Europe or Central America, or political persecution in other parts of the world. Still others know that they had family members from another part of the globe who came to America to search for a better life, full of more promising opportunity.

I was able to trace my family history as far back as my Great grandparents on my mother’s side. I learned some very interesting and shocking facts about their lives and the struggles they had to endure. My Great grandparents adoptive my mother and twin sister at the age 2 because their parents were unable to care for them properly. They welcomed them with open arms and raised both of them as if they were their own. My Great grandfather was named James Allen Barnes, he was one of 5 sibling who was born in March of 1913. My Great grandmother was named Miriam Etta Troxler, she was one of 4 sisters who was born in December 1915. James and Miriam were both born in Greensboro, N.C.

I had never given much thought to my family and its place in history before. Sure, I had heard small anecdotes about relatives in the past, but I was too young to fully understand and appreciate their importance. Now, after having the opportunity to further educate myself, I am able to understand my rich family history in the context of the twentieth century. Additionally, learning about the events that my relatives witnessed and faced allows me to appreciate the constructs I was born into at the turn of the twentieth century, and the sense of stability I have experienced throughout my life. I now know that not long ago my ancestors left Russia to come to the United States for more opportunities, and that my great grandfather helped support his family through the Great Depression and bravely fought in World War Two. Also, I learned more about my grandparents and their first hand accounts and the roles they played during twentieth century events like the Cold War and Vietnam War. The separate roles and stories come together to tell a grand narrative that explains how and why my family reached its place in history today.