Rootseekers press release
The annual “Bragging Rights” were held at the last Rootseekers meeting. Bragging rights is when you can brag about an ancestor that you have been researching. It will cost you a dollar for three minutes of time. Money goes towards books for the genealogy room.
Charles Sanders led off by saying that he was born a poor, bright, white child so his parents called him “Sun.”
Next came Stella Sikes who spoke of one of her great-grandparents, Mary Margaret Fuessel, who came from Germany when she was 12. She then traveled to South Carolina to work on a plantation.
Then came Jim Gablin who spoke of his ancestor Sidney Riglin who helped found the Morman Church.
Margaret Ann Trail had a book that her sister had put together about their father and his memories. He spoke of when his father was killed when he was 12 years old.
Danny Welch spoke of his family.
Grace Donovan spoke of her book that she put together on her family and she gave her siblings copies. She read a letter that her grandfather had wrote to her sister.