When I met Elmer last week, I was amazed and impressed to learn that he has spent much of his life giving generously to the genealogy world. He and his wife, June, amassed a stunningly large collection of genealogy materials and shared them with others at Elmer’s Genealogy Library in Madison, Florida. That library was recently merged with the Huxford Genealogy Library in Homerville, Georgia, to form the Huxford-Spear Genealogy Library, one of the larges private genealogical libraries in the United States.

As David Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch, said in his speech to IGHR at the banquet on Thursday night, we are all related. With the Internet, we are a virtual community, too.