Who would have thought that the young lady who began asking questions back in the mid to late 1950's would have been the one primarily responsible for this project coming to life. From that damp afternoon in Germany, while I was stationed in there in the US Army, I offered to help put the many notes and sheets of paper together onto a computer program. To think that this was a model of what would later become Our Family Tree, along with the many others it has reached out and touched, as the many people who offered information would become a part of it as well. This tree, and the information it holds is dedicated to my Mom, Ramona Wilder Pierce. We love you and your devotion you have put forward. I only hope this provides the digital answer to your question asked so many years ago ...