Our Story

Hello Family,

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We are constantly updating the Family Book, “The Hallman Legacy”. The book provides a lot of the Hallman family history and begins in the early to mid-1800s. We have spent almost 20 years researching and documenting our family history so that we can share our history and connections with the younger generation.

As we have said repeatedly, “Everyone has a story”.  And there are so many stories – important and not so important – stories about our ancestors that must be told.  Some funny, others not so funny.  This is our history and we’re only here for a short time, so it is imperative to document and pass our history onto future generations.  We know that in some cases, the stories have been told, but need to be told from a different perspective.  It is our hope that present and future generations will come to appreciate the legacy our ancestors left for us to learn and build upon.  Our understanding of our ancestors  lives and what they experienced continues into our present day.  It is who we are.  We are who they were.

It is our belief that these stories will reveal the hope and pain our ancestors endured and will make us much stronger and wiser.  These stories will reveal the successes, the triumphs, the failures, and the suffering our family experienced.  Yet, they lived with such endurance and resilience that we can only imagine.  They could not read or write, but they left a legacy that we should be proud of.  We have to tell these stories.  Our ancestors are much more than names and dates of birth, they are more that marriage and death. They are much more than “Black” and “Negro” on official records.  These stories reveal who are ancestors were.  The strength they possessed.  Through these stories we learn more about our ancestors and their lives.  We learn about each other.  These stories tell us something about ourselves.

So, I am calling on each and everyone of you to share your story about our ancestors with pride, honor, and gratification.