I wish I started researching my family tree before my father died in 1982 so I
could have gotten some serious answers out of him. My son Michael did ask him
for a family tree, after his Grandfather he made up the rest. Lucky I do
remember some stories he told me while I was growing up as did my mother about
her side of the family. My parents both came to New York in 1929 from Scotland,
so I have no relations nearby to as ask, but later starting in 1997 my wife and
I began making trips to Scotland to see my cousins on my mother’s side and my
mother’s brother Uncle Peter did tell me a lot of family stories if I could
only remember them. It is important to get as much information from the older
members of the family as possible, they may not think their stories are
important, but everyone has a story to tell and future generations would like
to read about where they came from.
One thing that put me off at first was
that the early web site advertisements said you could trace your family to the
Kings and Queens of Europe being fairly sure my family and probably my wife’s
were poor serfs then working people and research showed that to be fairly close some becoming
merchants, but most servants and tenant farmers. I soon realized the every
person’s life no matter how poor should be remembered. It has been a slow going
research trying hard not to go down the wrong path, but it has been worth it.
I will go into the software, Photos and wed
sites that I used in later post on this blog.
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