Discovering how our ancestors made it through tough times can
keep alive the qualities that help us endure and enjoy our own dreams.
Tracing our ancestors is a wonderful experience,, finding out how they
traveled, where they lived, what they did to survive is truely a fasinating
discovery. A discovery that we the following generations can learn from
to achieve any dream we may have. They dreamed of a better life and traveled
practically to the other side of the world to find it leaving everything
they had behind to start anew. How brave they were to reach out and search
for the better life. They did not think they were brave, only that they
had to find a new beginning for them and their families. I am proud to
be Canadian but I am also proud of my heritage. Sifting through the church
records and meeting up with 'cousins', exchanging any new find they have
or just trading some story about a common relative just seems to strengthen
just how proud I am to be connected to them. Our histories are so much
apart of our futures,, something to proudly pass on to the next generation
so they in turn can continue passing it on. We get strength and courage
to reach for the unreachable,, achieve only what we thought were dreams.
I think that our ancestors would be proud to see what their courage and
search for something better has brought about. A new age,, so many new
technologies that are not beyond our abilities because they gave us the
rights to achieve them. I believe the best way to show our appreciation
is by tracing and recording any information we can find about them, making
sure they are never forgotten.
I read somewhere online about how when you start a family tree you
should decide exactly what you want to find out before you start.
In my mind family is everything,, my grandparents meant the world
to me,, I guess what I am searching for is family,,
as many as I can find,, to discover exactly where we started from
and what hardships my ancestors faced.
I'm 28 and I guess you could say I'm trying to figure out who I
am,, inside,, I know who I am
in the eyes of everyone around me,, wife,, mother,, sister,, daughter,,
granddaughter,,
niece,, auntie,, friend. But my question to myself is who I am to
me.
I'm crazy but then I'm german so I tend to babble.
Finding my past will help me decide my future.
As you explore my site I hope you find some of the excitement I discovered
in my discoveries.
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