Hi To The Family!

This beautiful welcome picture is of Ruth Shepherd Gurkin and her mother, Maggie Terrell Shepherd. I am Denise Diffee Hall, of Burlington, Alamance County, NC.  My mother is Jeanne Brooks Diffee, a descendant of James M Terrell and Lula Morgan Terrell of Alamance County and John R Shepherd and Susan Kinney Shepherd of Alamance as well, maternal side.  She is descended on her paternal side from Joseph Samuel Brooks' and Sarah Catherine Sharp Brooks (this is the grandparents of Jeanne instead of Great Grandparents because I have not found the Great Grandparents yet), William G. Sharp, Jr.and Emily Isely Sharp. Hello to all the Brooks', Shepherds, Terrell's, Sharpes, Iseley's, from Denise. I'm working on Ancestry.com almost daily to find out more about our heritage. If you have pictures, personal stories to share on the blog, contacts, please drop me a line or post in comments section here. I could use some help! I'll post a few new pictures that I scanned from my Aunt Katherine's collection of the Brooks family. She continues to stay active with our search. New pictures will be found on the tab at the top, named Picture Gallery.