Family Stories

Growing up in a family rich with fascinating stories, I’ve realized our loss since my grandmother and great-aunt passed on. Some of their stories and memories were never recorded and will be soon forgotten. There are things like genealogy, birth and death dates, marriage dates, and land ownership that can be traced years down the road. Lost is that sense of a person you can glimpse from a handful of good stories.

Recording those stories and memories is my goal. My intention is to create a book with the pictures, stories, memories, and genealogy from our family, the Wolfes and the Greenes. It’s truly a large undertaking, I know. We have a large family and I’ll be asking for input from many people, in the form of pictures, information, and stories, and then compiling it all into a format we can have printed as a bound book. It’s a big project, to be sure, but it’s important to me and I think it will be appreciated by others in our family.

We may end up with a combined book with two sections: Greene and Wolfe. We may end up with one book encompassing both. That will have to be fleshed out when I’ve gathered more input. I’ll use this site to help myself stay organized and let our family follow along as I record our stories.

“..what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.”
― Ellen Goodman

“My charge, then, in putting down my pen, and giving over this work to posterity, is this: Take the time. Take the time to preserve the stories, the photographs, the small mementos that mean so much. This is your legacy to future generations. Give it the attention it deserves. Your children and your grandchildren will thank you for it.”
― Laurence Overmire, One Immigrant’s Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants