Here I Am

This is a highly informal blog. More of a stream-of-conscious recording of my genealogy exploits in relation to William Bronson Lear.  William Bronson Lear was my great great grandfather.  Born in Kentucky in 1840, he joined Morgan's Raiders during the Civil War, was held prisoner at Camp Douglas, survived, was shunned by his family, moved to Louisiana, married a beautiful young woman named Nancy King, had ten children, lost is wife in child birth, and now rests in a peaceful cemetery in rural North Louisiana.  For many years I have searched for information on William. He has always been one of my more intriguing ancestors even before I knew much about it. Something with the accepted facts about him and is family have just never sat right with me. So here I sit, night after night, day after day, and year after year, searching for William Lear. And as I go along the way I have ideas strike me, evidence suggest something, and perhaps people give me hints. And while I keep a binder full of information on William, I do not always record every thought. Sometimes I forget ideas and only remember years later. So I thought I would start this little blog to record everything concerning William so I can reference later, and so anyone else searching for this elusive ancestor may find information and possibly share information (I know he had a family Bible that went to one of his daughters when he died, and I would LOVE to find that). It will be informal, maybe just a sentence or two. And well, that is all I have to say about that.