Our Ancestry

"Memories of Days Gone By"

 

       On this sad day of reflection,when a horrible event happened to so many families,

it changed their family history and the history of our country. It brings to my mind why

I am so grateful to computer technology to be able to bring my own family history more than hundred years ago for me to share with my children and future generations.

       Just to be able to research our family history is an awsome thing that I never even

imagined. Some things are very sad and some happy but there are things we may have

never thought some of our family might do. We may have heard over the years about a

grandfather and his family and that he was a blacksmith on the railroad so many years ago

but then found out that his father was a blacksmith. There was a great-grandfather on

the other side that was a blacksmith.

        To be able to look up the history, a place in another state where one of our parents

lived long ago. To find one of the settlers in that place was the father to a special lady

that married an uncle. To find that my dads half brother died at age 20, leaving a wife

and three month old baby after a horrific accident where he worked and to learn his own

father died just 20 years before. His mother would have been a widow in her early twenties when he was just a baby, leaving her with him and his three year old brother to raise. She remarried years later and was the mother to my father and his siblings, my  grandmother.

 A great-grandmother and her brother died the same day in different places.

        I probably have  been told of some family history but when I was a child and over

many years we forget. With the help of the U.S. Federal Census, information from a

library in an ancestors hometown  or obituary we can find so much information.

It is so rewarding to find out about our ancestors.

        If you might be interested there is a program on TV "Who Do You Think You Are" and

it tells stories of celebrities searching for their ancesters. Another program worth watching

if it is shown in your area called "History Detectives."

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

I haven't written anything for awhile so I hope you will excuse mistakes and thank you for reading. Instead of playing games I hold family history close to my heart.
I hope this piece doesn't bore anyone. Give it a try sometime!

Reviews

[Valentine]

So many people do not care who or where they came from. A few years ago I did all of our family history and it is in book form at our Family Reunion site so all in the family can always look at it and see names by pictures..Always name those old pictures if you can//Interesting piece..valentine

[realmwriter]

I havent had the chance to research my family history as I would like to do. I havent the resorces to do so just yet, but I am most certainly intrested to know what came of my family before I enterd this world almot 37 years ago. I know a little, but no where near what I would like to know...I really like this piece. Reminds me that my family needs my attention to detail to know where we came from. To know what we did and to know who we really are...!

[msharma]

It is good that you are among the few who really care about your roots.I feel the real gems of values are imbibed in you,I do respect your feelings and also. desire others to have the same feel as you.

[Dayran]

There's a prevailing notion around the world that the American experience is a singular matter of seeking that adrenalin rush. We have since seen how that rush can draw every inch of motivation from everybody else around the world.

But we have also learnt from that rush. Today's emerging notion will probably work out along the lines of ' we could get used to this.' We owe this to many things, certainly the tech and the developing idea of a world family are two of them. Nice to see this penned in poem, lest people say tech doesn't have a face.

[Raven Starhawk]

A important message woven into this with skilled hands. A truly interesting outlook.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Interesting, we all have interesting tidbits to jaw on about.

[~Blue Fantasy~]

So true. Thank you for sharing with us. Family is so important.

[Chris]

We are "Living History"... and our paths criscross back and forth again and again. You expressed the 'wonders' well.

Take care,
Chris

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

Very nice and the prog'who do you think you are' I've seen ... a British format that has transferred well to the US...so good for you and interesting...it's something about humans and there need of some knda connection that is unique...

[Christina May Shanaberg]

You have done incredible research and found out so much about our family. Thank goodness, no criminals, yet. LOL! I tried it, once long ago, and gave up before I started. It isn't easy to try and fit all of the pieces together, but you have done a magnificent job!