1)..why?..People have asked me why I would spend so much time seeking people who are already dead. Maybe it's just curiosity or the ? "What If" factor. What if certain ancestors hadn't come to the USA, what would my life have been if I had been born and raised in another place.
What were these ancestors like? Were the family stories really true? What did they look like? Do I look like anyone else? Do my children? I probably will not find the answers to these questions. However, it is fun looking for them.
When I was a child my mother would talk about many family members, some of which I didn't know. It kind of went in one ear and out the other. I was to busy living life toward the future to be concerned with the past. Unfortunately, she never wrote it down. Although we did have a bible with a good amount of family history, it was lost in a flood. Now I am the elder of this family and more concerned with the past then the future.
But, I do love puzzles and every time I find a connection it's another piece of the puzzle. Perhaps you have an unfinished puzzle, take a look at my family maybe we're connected
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