Welcome to Preserving Your Family Heritage
Welcome to Preserving Your Family Heritage
About Us
Ginny Smithson is a professional Genealogy Researcher. She is a member of the California Genealogical Society, Archives.com, Ancestry.com (world), a Findagrave.com photo provider, and teaches classes on how to research and make your own tree using Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker.
She married into the Charles Smthson family with ancestors going back through the Sellars, Shober, and Hundley families. They are in possession of many of Charlie's 2nd Great Grandmother, E. D. Hundley's pictures, scrapbooks, saved newspaper articles, poems, and essays.
Virginia (Ginny) MacKirdy Smithson
Discovery
Who are you? Where did you come from? Discover your heritage and learn something new and interesting about yourself along the way.
Start your journey back in time - today.
What?
Do you want to find your ancestors, relatives, or learn about your family history? It is amazing to see your own heritage come alive.
Archive
Let me help you research, document, then organize your heritage pictures and stories into your own Family Tree Book. Your genealogy can also be placed online on a Family Website.
Ellen Dowdell Hundley
Her Life
We have all seen this picture of our great great grandmother, but what do we know about her? This website is dedicated to her and will include all known stories, poems, essays, and pictures. This should be shared with all her descendants. If you find more documents from her please let me know.
Charts of her descendants have been partially posted . I have the rest ready to email to you instead of putting them here. I am still missing some portraits, please send if you have some.
Her Poems and Essays
Ellen wrote over 100 poems about events in her family's life, thank you notes and appreciations gifts, obituaries, local activities, famous people in her lifetime, and Biblical truths. She wrote from the 1850's until her death in 1905. Some of the words she used are archaic or have different meanings now. An example is "the kine in the lea." I have included a glossary of these words so we can better understand her poems.
We will learn of her philosophy and beliefs as we read the essays she wrote for "The Anchor," of which she was an editor.
The Foreword from "Grandma's Poems"
"The biographical notes of my Grandmother were gleaned from memory of things she told me, from scrapbooks of old newspaper clippings, and from old letters. The writings of a few of her contemporaries are included because they seemed to unify this story of a life which lent so much grace and beauty and interest to my childhood home."
Vivian Shober Sellars
Stamford, Connecticut
July 13, 1956