YOU ARE INVITED

Daniel Watts Family Form Link Daniel Watts and Mary Carney Interconnective Details Request Form

Henry Watts Family Form Link - Henry Watts Family Interconnective Details Request Form

Charles Watts Family Form Link - Charles Watts Family Interconnective Details Request Form

Dear Family,

To all branches, blended, and adopted family members of the Daniel Watts-Mary Carney, Henry-May Hall Watts-Sophia Johnson Watts, Ephraim Watts-Judith Watts, Noah Watts-Mary Watts, Benjamin C. Watts, Sr.-Sarah Watts, Charles Watts-Mary Dixon, and Alfred Johnson-Watts family tribe.

You are invited to participate the Watts Family, Native American, and Tidewater, Virginia Historical, Research, Preservation, and Service Project.

So, we have created a website and an organization for all to participate in and with. This does not replace the Facebook Group  Site that was established and is being used, but it also provides an organized and a self-sustaining method of distributing the family story to all and give all the ability to tell their own story.

It is important to the story of a family when family members, partners, and friends come together to collect, research, and/or preserve the essence of the history of a story.

Learning the history of our ancestors  helps each of us to gain a greater understanding of the challenges our ancestors faced, and it often inspires greater love and compassion for their flaws and mistakes. This compassion can easily translate to our relationships with the living, within our families and outside them.

By participating in a family research and preservation project we can develop a deeper personal identity and understanding of who we really are.  What we may not realize is that all the branches, blended and/or adopted family members, have added to the full story of our family.

Tracing family roots back through generations can help a person connect more deeply with a sense of self by learning about their family's past—where they came from, who they were, what they did, the trials they overcame, the accomplishments they achieved, and the dreams they had.

Identifying our family connections by researching our genealogy can make a great family activity that involves siblings, children, and grandchildren. It can bring family members closer together around a shared interest and also inspire intergenerational storytelling and sharing. To be sure, learning about common ancestors has a way of opening doors of communication. Sometimes, research will end with reconnecting long-lost relatives in surprising ways!

Family matters as we get older.  Indeed, we often realize the importance of family, not just the people we grew up with or raised, but the broad extended family of great aunts, third cousins twice removed, and great-great-great-great grandparents. There is much to be said for looking back on the generations that came before, and even though they are long gone, our ancestors may still have much to teach us about our families, our history, and ourselves.

Moreover, the European, African, and Native American mixture of races in the Tidewater, Virginia area and the shared experiences is one that should be celebrated, understood, researched, preserved, and chronicled so that today’s family members, society, and people in general can better understand themselves and their identity along with the “Lessons Learned” from interconnectedness of cultures, customs, beliefs, and offsprings. The Watts Family and all of its branches are products of that story which should be recorded and passed on.

So, we invite all Watts family members, branches, partners, and friends to take this journey with us as we create something special, unique, sustainable, and needed to provide a road map for others to do the same thing. This endeavor will benefit many for years to come.

Daniel Watts Family Form Link Daniel Watts and Mary Carney Interconnective Details Request Form

Hnery Watts Family Form Link - Watts Family Interconnective Details Request Form

Charles Watts Family Form Link - Charles Watts Family Interconnective Details Request Form