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My name is Sheila Kell ,
I am the County Coordinator for Jennings County INGenWeb. Feel free to E-mail me with questions, comments, or submissions of data and information regarding Jennings Co.
Local residents
gathered at the town pump, Paris, Montgomery Township, Jennings County,
IN. about 1900
"The Chosen"
We are the chosen. 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 the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? 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. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone 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 never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis
Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
TRIBUTE TO JENNINGS
COUNTY
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In & Visit
I want to thank Marie "Bille"
McGannon of Paris, Jennings County, Indiana for allowing me
to use information she has spent her 90+ years in Jennings County gathering.
I also want to
thank Marti Blazick for making and sending me a CD of the documents so I have
them to transcribe and for showing me how to use a digital camera to take my own
pictures. Many of these
documents are very old and have errors because people had less resources and
repeated what they had been told which over the years did not always prove to be
correct. A perfect example is in my family only two of their seven children are
mentioned in a local history. I believe in making as much information as
possible available but be sure to use it to do more research and verify what you
find. Link to North Vernon Plain
Dealer & Sun, 100
Years Ago to view Lilliam Carmers Column on Jennings County
History, they will now have archives available.
Jennings County Court
House
MESSAGE BOARD
Jennings County thru
Rootsweb/Ancestry.com
MESSAGE BOARD Jennings County thru
Genealogy.com-Genforum
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Jennings County Queries 1997-2003
Be sure to visit our neighboring
Counties
Jackson
Jefferson
Scott
Bartholomew
Ripley
Decatur
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