Last year I visited the small town where my ancestors lived for generations. I was visiting an old church and while walking toward it I tripped over a tombstone. I hadn't realized until then that there were graves around the church. The name on the tombstone was William Burdette, not one of my ancestors, but there were wildflowers growing around his stone. I noticed other tombstones where flowers grew randomly.

When I came home I posted some info I'd found on an old school in this town on the internet. The next day I received an e-mail from someone looking for his ancestor, William Burdette. He wanted to know if I knew anything about him. Going through old records at the family history center the name Burdette seemed to leap out along with other family names that I wasn't related to. So I decided to copy these records and put them on the internet. Occasionally I receive e-mail from descendants of the other people buried in that small graveyard.