Spreading the Word

In order to get our "Still Searching" blog into the hands [well, monitors] of more who might be interested in or connected to our family.... I sent a post out to past Griffin correspondents. A couple of very distant cousins have responded and others "bounced". I look forward to hearing from more who want to dig into the history.

Another method of contact, using the message feature on Ancestry.com, has come up with interesting results. I find that many who post a tree including names of our ancestors are really not "connected" to our family. Some have answered, "This is not a direct line in our family, but I am 'collecting' everyone named _____ ." If I were in that situation, I think I would "collect" them in my own Family Tree Maker or other genealogical database, not post them as part of my tree. But each has his/her own style. This is a hobby that can be a never-ending mystery. Enjoy the search!

The Griffin Land

Farm on Stony Creek, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

I was born in Texas, raised in Oklahoma, and now live in GA. We discovered that our Griffin family roots reached back to West Virginia. We traveled to Pocahontas County one recent summer, and explored the one lane roads where our Jonathan Griffin family may have once lived. When we stopped to take pictures of an interesting cabin, we found we were blocking a farmer's way. Apologizing, we told him why we were there, "looking for the Griffin land." He said "I live on the Griffin land."

No Griffins had been there for 100 years, but it was their (our) land. We were home.