Stockton, California - USA

• Welcome to my page. I am collecting information for my family history. Look at my tree and feel free to ask me for details about any part of it.
  
• I have to thank my mother, Viola Dedman for getting me interested and started in family history. Most of the tree you see is due to her extensive research over the years. Her marriage to my father, Herbert Dedman, begins the tree in 1940. They both currently reside on Flathead Lake in Bigfork, Montana.
  
• The Dedman branch is lost after five generations, and the Childers side about the same. I want to extend both sides back as far as information will allow, and, fill in the children of each marriage to help in identifying relatives.
  
• Since I have started my research several months ago I have received some very valuable information and documents sent to me by others researching the Dedman family. I have been thrilled to know that others are willing to share their research with me, for I believe this is the only way tracing family roots will work and finding relatives you never knew you had. I want to thank Danny McBee and Von Hamrick Jr. for not only answering my letters but sending documents of proof to my line.
• I keep my tree in a GEDCOM database, so sharing will be simplified. I am beginning to add historical notes to the database using Word and scanned images of birth certificates, wills, marriage licenses, etc.

Funniest line: My sister, Maxine, after looking through cemeteries in the south, reported failure to find the graves of any Dedmans. My husband pointed out she was unclear on the concept: "She's standing in the middle of a cemetery and can't find any dead men?"