Amazon.com description: Product Description: Generations come and go. Individuals are born, live, and die. That's the way it's always been and always will be. Each one lives his or her time filled with love, sorrow, stories and adventures. But these stories die at the end of each life, those wonderful moments or achievements completely lost to those who follow. If anything is remembered, it is usually only their name, date of birth and death, and those ubiquitous notations on tombstones. Lost to surviving generations are the incidents and events that carved out the path the future owners of their name would follow. All of us have ancestors, men and women who fought, worked, married, had children, and eventually passed on. Who were they? What did they do that's of interest today? Was there some family trait that cascaded down through generations that might explain some characteristic of who we are today? I've written this book to hand down more than just a few names and places but real incidents and events that occurred when they were alive. Reading these I hope you'll get to know and understand these shadowy figures from your past