Our philosophy:

Almost every person asks at some point in life, "Who am I and where did I come from?" Every family has a story full of adventure, joys and heartbreaks buried in its' past. Genealogy can be nothing more than a list of names and dates or it can add flesh and blood to make our ancestors into real people.
This story traces almost four hundred years in the life of one family.
The people are real. The events are real.
For example, Johann Jakob Küntzer actually sailed to America on the ship "Davey." Two thirds of the passengers and crew succumbed to disease enroute. When the ship arrived in Philadelphia only ninety passengers and crew were still living. The ship's carpenter, the highest ranking member of the crew still alive, brought the ship to port.
Marion Francis Kinzer served in the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry during the Civil War.

That unit fought in the battle of Chickamauga. Jacob Kinser was at Vicksburg. Elbert Luther Kinser died on Okinawa
In a sense this is the story of everyman.
To our ancestors the events we call history were current happenings in their daily lives. Many times men are caught up in events beyond their control. Decisions are forced upon us that we do not wish to make. The consequences of these decisions, whether good or ill, are visited upon our children and our children's children.
Our ancestors laughed and cried, lived and died, just as we do, and our children and grand children in the future will look back and call it history. What will be history to them is the substance of everyday life to us. When each of us comes to the point in life when we ask, "Who am I?" we are a result of all preceding events.