In the beginning -

     In the beginning?  That is what this is all about. Where do our ancestors come from?  What did they do?  Who do we look like?  Don't we all think about these questions at one point or another in our life.

     My mother, Nina Darrow Parrish, spent thousands of hours and that much more in dollars she didn't have to search our past; ordering copies of official documents and asking relatives for photos that she could copy.  Back in the  70's and 80's we didn't have the Internet to do our searching.  It took many hours at the library, scanning through micro-fish, to get info.

     My father-in-law, Ralph Finchum, got into it after a while, supplying my Mom with his family information, to the best of his knowledge.  After his retirement he made trips to Indiana where he could obtain much of the exact information needed.  I now have two relatives, from two families, bringing our past to us.

     Here we are over 20 years later and my brother, Ray C. Parrish, signs up on Ancestry.com, to take advantage of modern

technology to start the search once again.  Now the funny part of this is his motive.  He has a desire to prove that our family is not truly related to the famous attorney, Clarence Darrow.  Ray has his own site called the Parrish-Darrow Family Tree, where his doubts are squished.  But that is a different story and site.  I am taking his advise and have started this site in hopes of sharing the little bit of information that I have and to encourage family members to include their stories and information also.

     In many ways this is the beginning. The reality is, the journey began hundreds of years ago, and we can trace back to it.