HISTORICAL BREAKING NEWS: EVERYTHING I LEARNED ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED WHILE DOING GENEALOGY

EVERYTHING I LEARNED
ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED
WHILE DOING MY GENEAOLOGY
(By Bettyanne Bruin)


1. Dead people are a lot harder to find than living people.

2. Reading old documents for hours on end with no results can make a person go crazy.

3. There is no such thing as a cute ancestor.

4. Most living relatives are no help at all when it comes to finding lost ancestors.

5. People who do not do their genealogy believe there’s something wrong with people who do their genealogy.

6. People who do their genealogy think there’s something wrong with people who do not do their genealogy

7. It can be very upsetting to work for years to find a lost ancestor only to find their name listed on the roll of an insane asylum.

8. The longer a person is dead, the harder it is to find that person.

9. It’s not easy to find out your great great grandparents were first cousins.

10. Upon discovering a photograph of a lost ancestor, the thought can be quite disturbing that your looks might come from that same gene pool.