G2G: New member introducing myself

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Hello,

My name is Laura Burchfield, I'm just here to update and correct some issues with my grandparents names and spellings.  And I'm also going to add their descendants,  as it would be my father and Aunts.  There is nothing there.  I did a complete Genealogy of my Burchfield line back in the 80's.. unfortunately in the 90's I had a crazy person for a roommate and she burned everything.. as for my direct line, my grandparents, father and Aunts.. I know the information. I spent over two years of research.. for two years that's all I did,  and I traveled.. Tennessee, North Corolina.. even Maryland.. back then there was no internet.. and I made copies of everything I found, I put it together on a anthropology tree.  I even had recorded oral histories as some of these folks were still alive.. and all of it was destroyed.

This is why I visit genealogy trees.  It brings back memories and the enjoyment I had doing the Burchfield's... Now my mother's side, it's lost to time..but every now and then I check to see if anything new has surfaced.   I'm also part of a DNA study for people from the Cumberland Gap region.
WikiTree profile: Laura Burchfield
in The Tree House by Laura Burchfield G2G Crew (340 points)

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Hi Laura,

Welcome to WikiTree! I am Dave Draper and I am delighted to see you join our community. Here, we are passionate about building a single family tree and discovering our ancestry. I hope you find WikiTree as exciting and rewarding as I have. There is a learning curve so here is a link that might help you get started. WikiTree How To Here is How To Do IT

That being said, I hope you add your family to the big WikiTree.  If you would add just your pedigree, you might be surprised to find you have cousins who have already added some your family members.  That's what happened to me.

I entered my pedigree back to my 4th great grandfather and then then entire family populated back to 1690, where it brick walls.  I found 30 cousins, (I had no clue who they were) who had already documented so many of my family.   I sought them out and put them all on a blast email ,  sort of an email family reunion.  I can't thank WikiTree enough for providing the platform and tools that made this happen!

I hope you continue to connect your family to the "big" WikiTree!   Thanks for introducing yourself to the community!  Who knows, you may even be my cousin!wink

by David Draper G2G Astronaut (5.1m points)
selected by Susan Laursen

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Hi, Laura

Thank you for being a Guest Member on WikiTree.  Check out the Membership info and consider upgrading.  WikiTree is always 100% free, and you might find many cousins in WikiTree to help you add profiles to the one-world tree.

Dave gave you some great tips to get started.

 Welcome!  We look forward to working with you!

by Living Moore G2G6 Pilot (221k points)

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