About My Blog

I've decided to create this blog, Search Through Time, to connect with family members who are interested in their Family Tree, but not so much in wading through countless forms. Let's face it... those forms can be confusing and hard to understand unless you are used to working with them.

I started with the Dailey-Mathias Family Tree [my dad's family] back in 1986. I also started the Renner-Hitchcock Family Tree [my mom's family] at the same time. Back then there weren't all the online records that are available today. Back then genealogy was done through research trips, countless hours searching through old, dusty records, and lots of time and money. If you couldn't travel to where an ancestor had lived you had to actually sit down and write a letter asking for information and patiently wait until someone, hopefully, wrote back.

In the 1990's I started tracing the Travis-Underwood Family Tree so my children would have some knowledge of their dad's family. During this time I also started tracing the 

Diefendorf-Shumaker Family Tree so that his children would have some knowledge of their dad and mom's family. 

I had to stop all my research when Ken became sick because he was my main priority. Records got misplaced; and a home break in a few years ago didn't help any. Many of my records, documents, and pictures were lost or damaged and are gone forever. Time and money won't allow me to even try to replace them.

Even so, I'm bound to recreate what I can, mostly through the records and research that was left, online searches, and pictures so that something is recorded for these families.