My Mother's Family Roots
Wouldn't it be fantastic to find your family roots? Are you feeling alone and want to find out who those people you call "family" and "ancestors" truly were? Just who ARE your kinfolk?
Well, you are about to go down the halls of genealogy!
There are many sources in which to do that, starting here on the internet and in every library in every county of the United States leading all the way to THE
library in Washington, D.C.
Wouldn't you like to find your roots, you know,
the ones that lead you back to your great-great-great-great- you get the picture? Are you wondering what kind of people
run in your genes?
I recently asked my mother why she was SO EXCITED about
her geneology. Do you know what her reply was? "Good heavens!
The truth of the matter is I had lost both of my parents and was
feeling alone with no family to claim. God Told me to look up
my family tree and I just happened to have a book of such origin
lying around. I picked up that book, skimmed through it and when
I scanned the book in its entirety to my great surprise I found
them, those people who bore my name, and they became alive to me.
And I not only found SOME people in my family tree, I found out
that I had over 16,000 ancesters!
And I thought, I AM NOT ALONE! If I were to begin today and
desired to look up my ancesters, that's where I would begin again.
Since that day, I have been LOOKING! And, some twenty-six years
later, after my grandmother died, a Great Aunt and my mother died,
it became a great source to relieve my depression.
Because I realized, I was not alone! And it is as if they call
out to me and tell me where to find the missing pieces of the puzzle click here
called their origin (their place of birth) and their ending (their
final resting place). My husband and I have travelled all over the
East Coast to libraries, court houses and cemeteries to find "our
roots" and "our people" as we call them.
It was an endeavor worth spending hours and hours, days upon days
to work on. One positive result was that I was able to write a
family tree document for each of my children which allowed one of
my daughters through this research to join the DAR (Daughters of
the American Revolution). If you need to find your roots,
just start looking. They will find you! Here is a wonderful resource: click here
Here are those free sources:
Family Search - The popular free Web site from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:
Genealogy.com - It offers images of actual records.
Here's my favorite link:
Are You Interested In Your Family Tree?
Who's in there?
There are so many people interested in their geneaology or their search of their family tree, that people subscribe to magazines and ezines about the subject. Many libraries have their own section just for geneaology. Who were your long-lost family members? Did you have anyone famous in your family tree?
Those kinds of questions haunt and drive people to take years to stomp through foreign and local cemeteries and court houses to find the answer and ultimately, the documentation to back up their new-found claims of ancestry. These geneology searches lead families to write and publish books about their family tree to pass down to their children and their children's children. Those who have been fortunate enough to have family members interested in this subject glean the research and live literally spent in pursuit of the knowledge of "who was my great-great-grandmother?"
This kind of geneology search for people's family tree can be an expensive hobby, for like all other hobbies, it requires a certain amount of tools. Nowadays, the gas prices might keep one glued instead to the internet instead of traveling the countryside in hopes of finding those missing persons in the family tree chart.
How To Trace Your Family Roots
First, if you are really serious and have the time and the income, you can enroll in a University and brush up on your research skills and knowledge. You can even take these courses online for your own pleasure or to obtain a degree known as Certificate of Genealogical Studies. Then, you can work this hobby as you find the time to sit in front of your computer and do the work, or it may be just "fun" for you, since we all know that a passion is just pure fun to pursue. Tracing your family roots create just that excitement in those who love to follow the hot trail of someone lost in time and in notes and pages of a diary or a family Bible. Do you love the thrill of the hunt?
The course options for the Certificate range in studies on American, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish or German records. You may also work toward a Librarianship Certificate or takes courses in a field of study termed "General Methodology." They also offer classes in heraldry, languages or occupations and are currently growing their lists of optional classes.
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A Turning Point in the Civil War
So many lost their lives here...
It has proclaimed a victory for the Confederate army although others say that this particular battle was one that instead strengthened the opposing Union Army. This is why those who knew the history fought long and hard to have this historic site preserved and honored. Many developments were proposed to take away this hallow ground, but the preservationists prevailed. Had it not been for these caring people (perhaps some of their own ancestors died on this ground?), this historic site would have too been swallowed up by land developers and remembered no more for the historic turn taken by the Civil War on its hallow grounds.
PDAs for Reading Diaries in the Doctor's Offices
They start around a hundred dollars....
Now, you can carry all of that wonderful, prized information for which you dearly love to stir around in, in your hand with you. While you sit at a doctor's appointment or waiting in the car for someone, you could be researching and reading emails. These portable hand-held devices were originally meant for businessmen and businesswomen who hated lugging all of their heavy files to and from meetings and through crowded, busy airports. Now, their use has spread across the spectrum and those who love and study genealogy are benefitting as well.
These hand-held devices or PDAs, evolve as quickly as cell phones and you can find them in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They come with a stylus or plastic stick that functions as a pencil or pen that helps you to point and click, rather than using clumsy fingers that might not navigate as well. It is literally holding a computer, though be it small, in your hand. You can record data and go home from your trip and transfer that data onto your home computer.
The really cool thing about PDAs is that many companies sell downloadable books by the thousands which include records of pioneer diaries and other historical stories that you can read at your leisure. Go get a new device to read about your family tree today.
MyPal A626 Marvell XScale 312MHz Ulta Slim PDA
So, the next time you are stuck and waiting for your next doctor's appointment or any appointment for that matter, pull out your PDA and read a pioneer's diary. PDA take me away!
For thousands of free books for Palm-held devices, go to http://www.memoware.com!
Enjoy!
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