My mother started researching in the late 1960's, due to her Step-Father, Albert Walker Torrans, telling her that he did not know his grandfather's name. This led to several years of searching for the family of my grandpa (step or not)-----during this time Mom began to search for her own Roots...... For over 25 years, with NO computer, she amassed boxes and boxes of paperwork. She joined genealogical societies (pouring over their publications), wrote letters by the thousands, logged hundreds of hours on the telephone, visited cemeteries, and family every chance she got on trips to TX and LA from her home in Calif. Bless her heart, everytime a conversation started, it got into genealogy------with everybody. My children were embarassed, and she had me totally confused on which family went with who. In 1991, Mother passed on, and I was left to sort through the boxes and boxes of family group sheets, census records, letters, bits and pieces of information written on everything. Not realizing that all the families were jumbled together---including what little she had been able to sniff out on my Father's family. It took me 4 years, of dabbling here and there. By February of last year I was hooked totally on this unending quest. I still don't have all her research in the computer----but I have managed to add several generations to the tree. I hope she knows that she left a legacy that has been carried on and hopefully will find another after. This has been one of the most exciting and fun things (besides my business) that I have ever done. My only regret being that I didn't get the "bug" sooner, what fun and what discoveries we could have made together. Thank you Mom Researching: Squyres, O'Neal, Adair, Pyburn, Rhame, Bazer, Smith, Mosley, Wilson, Hartsell, Cline, Anderson All wound up in LA or TX