My name is Toya McClurkan and I have a fascination with family genealogy and stories. When I first moved back to Texas in 1995, I was lucky enough to live close to my grandmother and great-aunt and be able to visit with them often and get to know them and many of the cousins from their generation. I got to hear about what life was like growing up on “The Farm” and, since my great-aunt and uncle still lived there, I got to hear those stories in the place where they happened. I heard lots of family stories and I knew the basics about our family history, but the details about how I was related to these various other cousins was very confusing to me, so in order to try and straighten out those details in my mind, I decided to put together a simple family tree for our upcoming family reunion. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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