Have You Ever Wondered About Your Family’s Ancestry?

Do you know your family’s ancestry enough to pass on to your own children?  Have you ever wanted to know more?  One side of my family is good about keeping history of family members within the past 150 years or so, but what about even before then?  The other side of the family, I am not so sure I want to know about. 

I remember how my school days I had to create a family tree and write about my family members of the past.  That was such a grueling assignment because it took forever to get information about my dad’s side of the family since he, nor his siblings really knew much.  They would compare notes, but I don’t know that any of it was right.  I guess I feel like since they couldn’t give me clues to any of the information, then it would be so hard to find it on my own.

I know that many people love finding out all about where there family came from and what they did.  I think it is interesting when others tell me, but I feel like it might be a hard, and long process of putting together all of the information.  I guess that is the fun in the puzzle though.  Hopefully my children would appreciate the findings if I ever took the time to research it.

There are many online websites that are great for helping you access genealogical records from around the world.  Have you ever researched your family’s history?

Ancestry.com

familytreeresearch.com

familysearch.org

ellisisland.org (this searchable database lists those passengers who sailed into New York in the late 19th and early mid-20th Centuries.

usgenweb.org

Happy Hunting!

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