Porter Family Website

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <I><B>"When a society or civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from." - Carl Sanburg</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> <embed src="HTMLobj-506/wind_of_change.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Background Music</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>"Winds of Change"</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Greetings from the Outerbanks (OBX) of North Carolina, our home for many years. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It is an exciting  land of shipwrecks, lighthouses, surf, sand, seashells and , yes, great fishing.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Home of The Lost Colony, Elizabeth II, and the first flight, Wright Memorial.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Don Porter, Webmaster</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:donport@earthlink.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:donport@earthlink.net"><U><I><B>donport@earthlink.net</B></I></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>Porter Family Website</B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="03f85030.jpg" border=0 width="389" height="259" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sailing on Arlbermarle Sound, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina</div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-508/wind_of_change.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">   <embed src="HTMLobj-201/ocean.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-82/Welcomef.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0530c230.gif" border=0 width="268" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> to<B> A Porter Family</B> site on the World Wide Web! We have interesting sites for you to visit. When you are done, please drop us a note and tell us what you think of our website. Feel free to browse.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" >S</FONT>ome families know a great deal about their roots, others know very little. This website is designed for those of the surname <B>PORTER </B>and their related families. It is an attempt to records what this compiler has learned over the years, commencing in 1989, about this<B> Porter </B>family history.</div> <bR> <div> F<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >amilies today, tend to be scattered all over the country, if not the world. The primary purpose of this work is to preserve the family history in order that present and future generations may have a website that attempts to bring together, through related links, the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web, allowing them to explore their roots in a comprehensive manner.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" >A</FONT>nother purpose is to create cordial contacts between family members and descendants of our first common ancestor,<B> Richard Porter</B>, of Weymouth, England & Massachusetts as we discover the varied levels of kinship and help our families stay connected even though we live far apart.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction"><U><IMG SRC="05428280.gif" border=0 width="40" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Enter For</B></div> <div> <B>Introduction</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction"><U>Introduction</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Porter Family History"><U>A Porter Family History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Porter Heraldry"><U>Porter Heraldry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ancestral Connections"><U>Ancestral Connections</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Porter Genealogy"><U>Porter  Genealogy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>