Introduction
Welcome to our genealogy site. On these pages you can discover our family’s history as we trace the ancestry of Edward and Constance (Lafayette) Nowell, Luther and Lola (Todd) Leighton, and Joseph and Mary (Scanlon) Dwyer. Like all families, ours has a rather long, rambling history, because as you go backwards in time your family expands exponentially —we each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, and on and on, not to mention all the aunts, uncles and cousins!
I have been researching the family since 2008 and I have accumulated a lot of information which I will share with you in this blog and in a genealogy database, Our Family Tree. To have full access to the database you will need to fill our our short registration form. After you receive your confirmation email you can log in for complete access to the site. (We are updating various pages on the Help menu and they will be available soon.)
While you will find a lot of information in Our Family Tree database, this blog will offer more personal sketches of our ancestors and the times and places where they raised their families and worked and worshiped. Part of the fun in genealogy is hunting for clues about an ancestor and some of my blog posts will describe the discovery process.
This is a work in progress, so I hope you will come back often to see what’s new here or in Our Family Tree database. New facts are constantly coming to light, some of which may replace previous data. Also, please contact me if you have new information to contribute, need to correct an error, have a question, or just want to touch base. I’d love to hear from you!
This genealogy is dedicated to our children and grandchildren. May you be enriched, enlightened and encouraged by the saga of our great family.
