Crow believes that family history is an exploration not only of the past, but also of ourselves. She shares her favorite tips, tricks, and resources for discovering your family history-- and having fun while you do it!

READ 31 SMALLER BOOKS OF THE BIBLE IN 31 DAYS SUMMARY After I wrote my first book "I Gave You My Son", I was compelled to read the Smaller Books of the Bible within a specific time. I am pleased to say that I read these in thirty-one days. Then the idea came to me to put these books together and read them as a separate book. I then proceeded to do that. The idea is for the reader to read and learn more about the word of God. This was more fascinating as I began to learn new things from these books. Then the idea that as you read you could make some notes just to remind yourself about what you read about came to me. Then I began to make the notes. I came up with seven headings under which the reader could make some notes on and these are: About the book Relate the book to our current situation Mark your progress Reading time My key verse

Who were we, and where had we come from? Whence these customs and constraints by which we make some little progress day by day? My ongoing journeys and Genealogy research of now some twenty plus years have put me in touch with many distant relatives in North America. Family lists have thickened into tomes. I had hoped to uncover enough information to have constituted the capsule summaries of at least my own direct ancestors. Letters they might have written, what they said, did, and what they might have thought; or some anecdotes of their lives as they faced the challenges of their own lives and times. But lives are busy, recollections are scanty and unlikely ever to have been recorded, and letters are perishable. The mementos of the aged householder are scattered and lost at his demise, in the inevitable house-cleaning in preparation for the new resident of the old dwelling-place. Thus, little remaining history of the common man, as there is more apt to exist concerning nobles, kings, and notable persons. It does not mean that the life of the common man would not be an adventure of interest, only, that it’s history is not commonly available.