Hello Fellow Bloggers, As you can see, I am going to take a different direction on my blog. I am going to focus on the trials, tribulations and triumphs of family history research, and travel as well. If you google my name, you will notice that over the past ten plus years, I have been leaving posts about my family history research on various web sites. One of those web sites is Genforum.com. I have been working on my genealogy since I was a teenager.I have attended a few regional genealogy conferences here and there, along with a national one in 2005.My ancestors came from Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.I have had quite a bit of help with my research along the way, but I still have a long ways to go, particulary with my mother's paternal line of the family. I am very lucky that I found anything with that line of my family, because the borders between Germany, Poland, Russia, and what was formerly known as Prussia has changed so much.Right now, I just have to find church records in Poland, and search for the siblings of my great grandparents, and their descendants.Just think, a year ago, I went to see the movie, "Julie and Julia" twice, and was inspired by that, even though I was rather envious of Candace Bushnell, the columist from the New York Observer.
So, what does family history mean to you? Does it mean going through scrapbooks, and looking at old photos of days gone by? Does it mean hunting for records in the archives of historical societies and court houses? Does it mean going to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, where records are kept underground? Does it mean going to a church in order to ask about records? Or, even better, testing your DNA pattern, particularly if you became ill with cancer, and you have no idea if a relative died from the same illness that you had? What a multitude of questions! My mother had her's and her oldest brother's DNA tested, and did nothing further with the research. To her, it was too complicated to keep up with. That's too bad, because she and her brother kept telling me that I would never be able to find anything! Yeah, right! I'll believe that in a New York minute! Well, fellow bloggers, I must leave for now.I would love to hear from anyone else about their genealogy research.In my next blog, I will share the surnames that I am researching. Until then, happy trails to all of you!:)
