Some old family members no longer with us have a Christmas Message to y’all. So here is Burrito, Fang, Maxine, Shotsie and Sooooweeeee.

Dallas Schultz received his trophy in the mail yesterday. Thank you to those who voted for him.

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Generation 1 would be the generation of my, my siblings, and my cousin’s parents. Few remain, and they include both my parents, Aunt Willie, Uncle Bud, and my 2nd cousin Howard.

It is important to the documenting who our family ancestors are to future generations — that the Generation 1 members take a little time to tell us about their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and other Generation 1 members. This is also their opportunity to tell of their “Life & Times” to their descendants.

More information on how to do this can be found on the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page of the Old Hippie’s Roots web site. www.OldHippiesRoots.com

To view what has been written so far on an ancestor, simply click the Family Tree link in the NavBar, slide down to the Surname of the Family, and the existing pages will display.

If have a memory to add about that family member, please feel free to submit it. The FAQ page has more detail to do so. If you have questions or comments — please do so in the Old Hippie’s Roots forums.

I have created a discussion forum related to this web site. This is the place to discuss virtually anything or anyone having to do with this web site. It is a semi-private forum. That’s to say that the password oldhippiesroots.com must be entered to view the posts. Since the password is published here it should be considered only semi-private. You will have to register to post — but it is very simple. Click the register link in the forums, enter your desired User Name, password, and email address. You then will be sent a confirmation email to that email address. After clicking a link in the email — you’re good to go on posting.

At present, all posts are moderated — meaning that I will need to approve them before they display, but I’ll do it quickly. The reason for this is that I want to eliminate Internet Trolls and Spammers from posting in our forum. I would like to suggest family members using a User Name that readily identifies them to the rest of us.

This all is really very easy — but if you have any questions or problems — contact me and I’ll help.

The Old Hippie’s Roots project is a collaboration from family members of the Schultz, Castillo, VilleMonte, Lyon(s), and Francis families to document it’s ancestry history, so that it might passed along to future generations.

You can learn more about the site by reading the FAQs, and the posting below.

If you are a member of these five families, you are asked to please help with the collaboration of this family history.

Thank you
Dave Schultz
The Old Hippie

The Old Hippie’s Roots Ancestry Project Begins

The above is George M. Schultz and his wife Martha — my father’s grandparents.

When I was a kid, my Grandma Castillo would play her ukulele on the front porch of the house my Grandfather built, while we kids sang “Ain’t Gonna Rain No More” all night long. Then we’d listen attentively while she’d tell us stories of her childhood, and of her family. However, she never documented her life, the life of any of her parents, brother, aunts, uncle, etc — so all of that went to the grave with her — except for what might be able to accurately reconstructed from the memory of a ten-year-old. Worst yet, she was really the only of my relatives tell these stories, and so while we know a little about her parents — we know very little about our other ancestors.

In 1999, in an attempt to get everyone pumped up for a family reunion, I put together a little ancestry web site and asked a couple of our elders to fill us in on our ancestors that they anything about. Since then we’ve lost a few of our seniors, and none of the rest of us are getting any younger. Basically we are at our last opportunity to learn about some of our ancestors — before their memories will be forever lost. It is true that right now most of my generation’s kids (we currently refer to them as Generation three) at the moment could care less about their ancestors, and are “too busy” to go visit and sit with their grandparents and ask. However, someday they’re going to regret not taking the time if there is no other record they can learn from to pass along to their children and grandchildren. I know that I seriously regret not getting with my grandparents before they died to learn of the ancestors whose memories went to the grave with them.

I have put together this web site in a last ditch effort for the Generation 1 (the generation of my parents) family member who are still with us, to take the time to document their memories of family members no longer with us to be posted immediately, and other Generation 1s still with us — which I will hold in confidence for as long as they’re still with us.

The absolute best way to do this is to prepare your memory in a single Word document per person you are writing about — and use the contact forum to attach the Word document. Word is best as it has great spelling and grammar tools to help you proof your memory — but if you don’t have Word or know how to use it — please contact me and we’ll figure out and optional way to do this through email.

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