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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.
 

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