"I Find the great thing in this world
is not
so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving" - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Welcome
02-14-2013
Hello and
welcome to My Family's Heart Genealogy please bare with me as this site
is going to begin going through some major changes. I am back in the
game and am going to start working on a whole new look, updating the
content, adding more great stuff as I go through everything my mother
and I had collected over the 10 years that we did genealogy together
and the 15 years that she worked on it. Pictures, birth certificates,
death certificates, stories, letters and so much more.
Dedication
I dedicate this genealogy
website
to my loving mother Ruth Ann (nee McGinnis) Gauthier; her
mother Naomi Ruth (nee Fleenor) McGinnis and father Clarence McGinnis;
my dads grandfather Frank Patterson and grandmother Arminta (nee
Ledrick) Patterson and his father Angus John Gauthier, Sr and wife Ruth
Idona (nee Patterson) Gauthier. They were all very loving parents and
grandparents who now watch us from Heaven!! Love always your daughter
& grand-daughter - Tonya!!
To view the
memorial
on line dedicated to my mother click here -MAKING
EVERLASTING MEMORIESFeel
free
to sign the guest book.
In Search Of
Coat of
Arms for our following lines, if you happen to have one that
we could post on our site please email me at tonyaloveslife@gmail.com.
Thank you so very much for
your help. Chriss; Earlywine; Fleenor; Hook; King; Madlung; Merpeau;
Longbrake; Ludrick; Luther; Tetreault & Trout. We are not sure
if all of these surnames even have a Coat of Arms. If you have any
knowledge on this topic, please contact us. Thank You!!!
"In
God We
Trust"
Ruth Ann
(nee
McGinnis) Gauthier:
My mother was born in
Port
Huron, Michigan, (daughter of Clarence McGinnis & Naomi Ruth
Fleenor), where she lived the first 20 years of her life in the same
home.
She met & married my father, a military man, Angus
John Gauthier Jr. on
2 July 1965 in their hometown of Port Huron. When they met they found
out they
had grown up a few blocks from each other, going to the same school.
During my fathers career in the U.S. Coast Guard they raised two
daughters &
traveled to several states, including Illinois, Indiana & New
York,
never realizing they were living in the same areas many of our
ancestors
had. It wasn't until the early 1980's after moving to Florida that my
mother
was bitten by the genealogy bug, as this was when she was
introduced to her ancestors through the excitement,
interest, & years of research her cousin, Karen L. Rose of
Florida, & cousin Larry R. Fleenor of
Indiana had
already accomplished. The one surname that seems to have
captured my mothers the most in the last few years she worked
on genealogy was the
FLEENORline,
having met
many
wonderful researchers along the way, as well as
adding close to 17,000 names to our file
Tonya
Rena Gauthier (Married name was Kellum)
I was born in Port
Huron, Michigan. (daughter of John Gauthier Jr. & Ruth Ann
McGinnis). I graduated high school at Zephyrhills High School in
Zephyrhills, Florida. Joined
the US Army in 1986 as a 91B (Medical Specialist) &
served 8
years. Half of my service was at Monteith Barracks in Fuerth, located
just outside beautiful Nuremberg, Germany a country where many
of our
ancestors once lived. The other half of my service was in Washington
state at Fort Lewis. One year for Christmas my mother gave my sister
Danita & I a binder with our family tree, just our direct
lines, nothing fancy, some pictures & documents. It
didn't interest me then. My love for genealogy started in 1996. My
mother knew nothing about the internet and I got online & found
so
much stuff, she was overwhelmed. That's when we decided to make it easy
for other researchers looking for the same ancestors & started
a website in 1998. Since then our site has grown beyond belief. The
surname that I have dedicated most of my time to is our
MCGINNISline
now nearing
1000
names.
Ruth Ann
(nee
McGinnis) Gauthier: 
