I'm traveling back in time, with the help of Ancestry.com and developing a family tree. That sounds so simple until you actually start to work on one.
Thanks to the hard work of early genealogists who patiently, wrote letters to family members, researched cemeteries, logged infinite hours reading difficult script in church registers and countless other means they used to ferret out names of relatives and then posted their findings on the Internet.
Another thanks to Ancestry.com that made world wide records available, for a fee, to those of us, unable to travel to the Old World and traipse through graveyards and dimly lit churches.
For whatever reason, information from my family members was hard to pry, out of them. I seldom asked questions of them, until I reached the age of "wisdom" and suddenly I thought it would be nice to know something about the person, whose old photograph had been passed down to me.
When I asked, the few remaining people, they brushed away my questions, gave intentional misinformation or bits and pieces of stories that they "thought" they remember hearing.
I've decided to share what I have been finding with my immediate friends and family. I have found more than I expected with the limited information I had starting this.
I've found some funny, sad, interesting facts along the way and this seems like one way to share them with you.
I feel as though I have thousands of dead relatives standing behind me doing fist pumps. FINALLY, somebody is remembering us.
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