I have spent a good portion of my later years putting this family tree together for all of you. You will want to use a computer or large tablet to view this website. The trees and most of the media items are next to impossible to view on a phone screen.
My Family Tree is the full tree. I have made links to the 4 main branches of my tree to make it a little easier to navigate. From my Dad's side there is Nease/Heacock/Gardner/Mumford (my grandfather's side) and Sepúlveda/Lugo/Cain/Saffell (my grandmother's side). On my Mom's side there is White/Berry/Hicks/Ashcraft (my grandfather's side) and Benham/Means/Burlison/Adams (my grandmother's side).
I also have links to individual branches for you kids: Howard/Stewart, Brown/Miller, Morin/Knight, and Stoltman/Allmer. There are also links to individual branches for Melissa's Family, Matt's Family, Grandma Carol's Family, and Grandpa Bob's Family.
DIGGING UP BONES
The story of a number of historic cemeteries in downtown Los Angeles and their closing reveals many stories, of graves not moved including the Old Calvary Cemetery.
All interment records from Old Calvary Cemetery, now the site of Cathedral High School known as the Phantoms, have been lost. Not all burials were moved. Artifacts, including headstones, found almost 100 years later now serve as decoration on the campus and the gates to the "Phantoms" stadium. Where are our ancestors? How many are lost forever?
Sepulveda Chart Lugo Chart More
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT 1891-1930
Solly's Tree Joe's Tree Gallery
You can use this area to add links to your history pages, people pages or your favorite resources.
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family. Look how far we have come. You would be proud of us!" How many tears have I a shed for those lost; some so young.
Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us, "Tell our story!" and so we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.
So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
You can click on any of the surnames in this "cloud" to see everyone with that surname.
Common names like Adams, Brown, Stewart, Miller, etc. appear in multiple branches and may or may not be related to each other when you go back many generations. When I realize that a family is found in multiple branches, I have noted this when I catch it. If you notice that a person in one branch matches a person in another branch, let me know so I can put it in the notes and eliminate duplicates.
If you want to have some fun and explore the "Royal" line, Stewart and Stuart are a good starting point. Enjoy!
This will be a work in progress for as long as I can do it. You will need a user name and password to see the info here. Just give me a call or text and I will make one for you. Love you all!
