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APPRECIATION

I want to express my thanks to those who have helped in this project. Any errors that may have occurred are unintentional. I hope that anyone who is willing to continue these records will do so. I wish to leave this project for future reference to those who may wish to add to it.

Many times during my younger years my mother and father wanted to tell me stories about their early lives and some history of the family roots. I was not interested at the time.

After my mother died in 1945, my Dad and I were left alone for several years until I got married. During this time, my dad and I traveled through western Canada and the USA in a little red Jeep. He always wanted to tell me stories of his life and of his relatives. I couldn't care less as my mind was always on something else.

Now that I am the father and a grandfather, I want to provide a chronology of the Wall, Unruh and Related Families for my children and for anyone who may be interested. This report is for the use of those relatives and families who may wish to follow our history. I have included a wide scope of interlocking relatives whose ancestors migrated to this country.

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INTRODUCTION

I suppose it's natural when one gets older to start chinking about one's Roots, partly because before retirement there is little time to spend on any thing but the present. The past seems irrelevant in scramble for survival.

When I first started on my history project about 12 years ago, it was my intention just to follow the family tree for three or four generations - something to hand down to my children and my children's children. But as I began to look up dates and names I realized that this was going to be more of gargantuan task than I had bargained for. At what point does one cut it off - where to draw the line - should uncles, aunts and cousins be included? So often they are part of the story.

If I was going to leave a history _?_ it seemed more useful to include as many of these statistics as possible - not so much for the present reader's information as for future generations use in adding to the history. Then I was faced with the decision do I make this a story or should I concentrate it more as reference material for a genealogical tree?

As more and more stories came to light/ many of them through research obtained by some one else's careful record of statistics I decided to try to do both. A big order and an often-difficult job, something I had not seen done before.

This is what I have tried to do. The reader will have to glean the part or parts that he or she finds of interest and understand the reason that there is so much often dry data incorporated into what I hope are interesting stories and tidbits of information.

When I started looking at my notes in the big cardboard box that I had gathered over the years, I realized that there were about 12 to 14 families that I now call "The Clan" that migrated through Europe together and then on to America.

I decided to combine this "Clan" as best I could to show the connection of our bloodline. I found fascinating records written 150 to 200 years ago and I feet dedicated to continue and leave what I can for future generations who may be interested to carry on with this project.

Cliff Wall

Pine Grove, California