Mabry Mill in North Carolina

Welcome to My Website

Hi, my name is Deborah Claxton and I would like to welcome you to my website. Sit down, pour yourself a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy yourself. I hope that you will find what you are looking for on my website.

This website is the family history of my paternal and maternal family lines, the McCully's and the Savage's. From time to time, I enjoy looking at old photographs and going through old documents and other papers that have information in them about my ancestors. This website is a place for me to store all those things together in one place so they do not get lost or discarded. I also have some pages listing the programs and tools I've used to make this website and lists of places I've been on the web, so I can refer back to them in the future.

As a genealogist, I try to respect my fellow researchers and family, therefore, I made up my own rules of ethics according to what I have learned during my research.

My Genealogists Rules of Ethics:

Respect your living relatives’ right to privacy.
Give credit where credit is due.
Remember a fact is not a fact unless it has a document to back it up.

Why Do I Search For My Ancestors?

I search for my Ancestors because I loved and still love my parents, my grandparents and everyone else in my family whom I have ever known. I want to know and to learn about the flesh in which I came from, from the ancestors I never met.

As long as we remember those that have gone and treasure their memories they will still live within us. I can’t just let those that I have loved go on forgotten in history.

I want to keep their memories alive, and by doing this I research. I research where they were born, where they lived, what they did, what they might have contributed to our society, what their hardships might have been and where their soul rests.

Poem is Copyrighted 2006 by Deborah Claxton