In the 60's, my mother had first contracted cancer. She battled it in one form or another until 1984 when it finally took her life. My grandfather Lynn also died that year. That changed my outlook on family. It started getting smaller. That is until I found the research that my mother had started on the Lynn family.
My mother really didn't have anything that I wanted except that book on the family. It extended my world to living people that I didn't know and then back a few years to some deceased relatives - ancestors. After reading through it once, I was hooked.
After countless hours spent in libraries and courthouses, I put together a basic tree. Didn't do anything right as far as keeping track of sources. Then I met Paul Lynn, a distant cousin, who gave me a copy of the book by Eliza B. Lynn. Next, Fred Lynn, of Illinois, contacted me and sent the material on the Kentucky Lynns. My family has now exploded into branches I never dreamed of and I'm still on the 'Lynn' branch. Also, I got a computer program to enter everything into.
Now, many years and several new friends later, some family and some not, this one branch of the family has developed into a tree of several families and it all happened because of mom's efforts. Thanks mom.
