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There are many who publicly or privately wonder about their origin. If the truth were known, most of us wonder about our ancestry at one time or another. It must be very tragic for those who do not know who their ancestors or parents are, and equally so, even if they know who the particular parties are, but the parties cannot be found. The same must be true regarding brothers and sisters and other dear members of a family.
The quest for knowledge of a family origin and ancestry must be a natural desire, because we are continually made aware of searches being made for lost members of a family. Many searches must come to a tragic conclusion when nothing is found or learned, while on the other hand, we often read of many successful experiences where members of a family are reunited after years of separation or abandonment. Whether the separation or abandonment was for cause or not, the reunions do seem to be filled with joy of a very high level, since someone has discovered the key to his identity or that of a loved one.
As you will note in the appendixes, the paternal side of the Green family goes back only a few years, while the maternal side goes back considerably farther. The explanation for this fact is relatively simple. The American Indian did not possess the mechanics for inscribing permanent genealogy as did the so called civilized world. So, for the present, we must do with what we have. Someday, one of the Green descendants might be motivated to attack the Green genealogy chore professionally, or possibly might engage someone to make a professional search.
The writer of this initial attempt to establish some semblance ,of a Green Family Tree, did so for the following reasons: (1) At the reunion of the Green Family in Horton, Kansas in October 1978, one of the young nephews, "Little Eddie, remarked as to how happy he was to be in attendance at the reunion because he could learn more about his many relatives. The sobering thought that arose from this simple truth was that possibly more of the Greens might like to have additional knowledge of their kinfolk. It was felt that members of the family should have something more concrete and permanent to remember relatives by other than casual acquaintance or attendance at an occasional reunion. (2) Greater motivation was offered by the realization that the year 1979 was the 100th anniversary of the writer's father's birth and that some type of written record of the Green family might be a fitting tribute to this anniversary.
The year 1980 will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mother of the writer. Sometime in 1980, an attempt will be made to update and correct the appended family tree data and also publish some fitting data about the beloved matriarch of the immediate Green family.
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