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Conclusion
In The Story of Civilization, Will Durant wrote:
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is
sometimes filled with blood from people killing,
stealing, shouting and doing the things that
historians usually write about, while on the banks,
unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise
children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle
statues. The story of civilization is what is happening
on the banks.
Roots and Tales is not and was never meant to be a
documented genealogy. Roots and Tales is a compilation of
the family stories I uncovered in my quest for Georgetown.
Roots and Tales are some of the stories of what our
ancestors were doing on the banks while historians recorded
what was floating down the stream. Knowing the challenges
and struggles they met and conquered, their values and life
codes, their failures and their accomplishments is to know
our family’s, and in retrospect our own unique contributions
to the story of civilization.
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