Jeanie Hunter
B:1875 D: 1946
My Great Grandmother on my fathers side
Our Family's Journey Through Time
Welcome to my Family Tree Website. My name is David Blyth and I have spent some years researching my Family History. Some of the Surnames included here are Carroll, Williams,Maclean (Lean),Robertson,Currie,Hunter,Stewart,Dunn among others.
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My inspiration for doing this was twofold. As a child I used to enjoy talking to my paternal grandfather, Harry Blyth, who would regale me with stories of the Blyths of Cupar, Fifeshire and the names in the family bible. I would also listen to my maternal grandmother, Carrol Austin-Smith who would show documents and tell stories of her anscestors, amoung others, the Blyths, also of Fifeshire. I thought there might be a link so started looking. I employed standard genealogical methods, as well as some oral traditions, and have tryed to get at least two independently verified sources per direct ancestor. I am happy to share this information
Because I chose to. 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. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
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. "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.
B:1875 D: 1946
My Great Grandmother on my fathers side
B:1894 D:1943
My Great Grandmother on my mothers side
The Family of James and Alice Blyth of Temuka
B: 1848 Ireland D:1928 Dunedin,NZ
My great great grandfather on mothers side. My sons middle name is named after him
My Paternal Grandfather, at whose feet I learnt his family storys
We strive to document all of our sources in this family tree. If you have something to add, please let us know.