Native Southeast Texan Don H. Loftin developed a deep interest in his paternal lineage early in life. At the burial of his grandmother, he asked his father, "Where did my grandparents live in Mississippi?" His father's answer was, "I was told somewhere around Jackson." The lack of information stirred a thirst to know more.Footprints on the Sands of Time is a story of one branch of the Loftin Tree of Genealogy in America, following along as the alleged Founding Father of the Loftin name in America set foot in Virginia in 1636. This story spans ten generations of the Loftin family over four hundred and fifty years.