Welcome to my blog on the family history of the Moore's and Williams' and other related families that eventually led my family to settle in Whittier, California, USA.

I will be posting the results of my 30 years of research on the history of my family. During this time I found no great heroes (nor villains, well maybe one), nor historical figures, nor anyone that could be found in a history textbook . I just found hundreds of average people who worked and lived in poverty and sometimes a little wealth (that they eventually lost). But when you think about it, it is these people who are the backbone of history. They are the ones that work and play every day to make their lives better, and in doing so make contribution to the well being of their society and the times they in which they lived.

I have four reasons/goals starting for this blog.

1. I would like my family and any other interested people to know about the stories of my ancestors (and my wife's as well). In other words I want to keep their memory and legacy alive. After all this time and effort,it would be very selfish of me not to share what I learned from others.

2. I hope to correct a number of errors and misconceptions I have found by other researchers. This is problem mainly with my Williams family. It seems someone posts a significant error on their family tree on the Internet, and then several other researchers just merge that error into their own tree. Then the error spreads like a virus from one tree to another tree spreading untruths and rumors about our families.

3. Perhaps an unknown distant relative may come across this blog and become known to us and share their findings.

4. Most important, it is imperative that we keep the stories of our ancestors alive. They have passed down to us the living their values, personalities, biases, traditions, artifacts, food and numerous other parts of their lives. To understand ourselves better, we need to understand the people in our past that contributed to our own values and traditions.

So to my own family both nuclear and extended and to all other interested people, let the journey begin!