Reflection About Family History

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Tracing your family one step at a time. Taking a look back through the years with family history, it is remarkable how things have panned out to lead you to the point you are to in your life today. To sit here and think about what if my grandparents had never met or if my dad didn’t get the job that led us to my hometown where or what would I be doing today. I come from a long line of hard working men and woman who have always tried to make a better life for their family and descendants who have yet to come. In the past my family has had multitude of occupations and interests such as: My father Mark Coleman has been a police officer for the FBI and has now converted to National Instant Check Back Round System, My mother Lecia Coleman is currently employed with the Board of Education but also does beautician work on the side. Other members have been coal minors, farmers, antique dealer, medical field, military, postal employees, retail, nanny, machinist, cooks, mechanic, and seamstress. Growing with a family who is always working whether it is at work or the house it has instilled a great deal of work ethic within me. I have had a job sense I was sixteen years old working and learning the value of a dollar. I have always been an outgoing person who isn’t afraid to try something new, dancing and 4-H are probably the two things I am most passionate about in life. For as long as I can remember my maternal grandparents have been taking me to different events to help broaden my horizons in different types of music and cultural education. Both sets of grandparents were in 4-H so all of the kids and grandkids were at least put in 4-H at one time or another. My dad came from a rather large family of eleven members, Cecil Col... ... middle of paper ... ...e Robey Theater in Spencer, West Virginia. The Theater still has the old time feel with the gas lights that were made into electric, old theatre seats from the 1920’s in the balcony and coke machines from the 1950’s that still run. The theater was opened by Vernon Pat Robey who would be my third great uncle. When the theater first opened it was used for silent movies, the theater still has the orchestra pit that was used in the days of silent movies. The movie theater is open all year round and has just converted to digital movies three years ago. Although the theatre is no longer owned by a Robey it still keeps that family name. I think of the old Chinese Proverb when I think of my family “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” It takes one person with a leap of faith to make that single step of the journey that affects generations to come.

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