It is my hope to connect with different members of my relatives, whether distant or close in relation. I have been researching my genealogy for many years. I have found many ancestors on my mother’s side of the family, even connected with a few cousins…some many times removed and some close in relation.
But I’ve yet to connect with members of my father’s side. I have found his mother’s family, even contacted some of her relatives, but they seem disinterested in getting to know me or my family. It seems that she may have had a falling out with her family. I have hit a brick wall in trying to find his father’s family, well even location him for that matter.
Hopefully with this blog I can find more family and connect with them. Plus I’ll have fun sharing the stories of my search, the woes and excitement of discovery, for the different lines I’m researching. Not just my family but also my children’s father’s family.
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I have always had an interest in finding my roots, you know how that is. You have a special connection to a place and want to know why; mine was England and Scotland, especially during the medieval times. When I was a teenager my mother told us we are related to Alexander Graham Bell, who's supposed to be my 4th great uncle, so this just deepened that curiosity. While speaking with my mother in 2007, I decided to act on this desire to locate those who came before me. She gave me enough info to start my genealogy research. So after locating a few close and distant (one so distant I don't know how many times removed she is from me but she's a sweet lady so I don't consider that) cousins from my mother's line, I was really excited to go on to my father's line. That is when I came to a standstill, literally. I found some information on his mother's family, they came here from Mexico just before she was born and stayed in the county where he was born. This journey I've taken to find out about those who came before me is why I love doing my genealogy and will hopefully pass it down to my children or grandchildren.
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Good luck with your blog! While I wasn’t expecting to, I have connected with many cousins due to my blog. I hope you are able to, as well.
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Thank you I really appreciate that. It is my hope to connect with cousins especially from my father’s line. His has been such a solid brick wall.
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Good luck with your search and the blog. Mine has helped me connect to more cousins than I ever could have expected.
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Thank you that too is my hope, to connect to cousins. It’ll definitely be interesting to see who I do, as long as I can figure out this tagging and categorizing thing down.
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I found that most people found me when they googled an ancestor’s name. I have no idea whether the tagging makes a difference!
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Yes that is what I was told. So I have added a bunch of tags, but forgot to put them to this blog post. I will amend this to add them now, thanks for the remind. 🙂
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Good luck with your blog. You are ahead of me with your first post.😊 I’m using blogger and still trying to figure out what I want to post.
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That is where I was for almost two months after going back and forth with who to use. I was told that Blogger was easy and all but I couldn’t figure it out. So after setting up with them and connecting my email to my Google+ and all that jazz, I went with this. Best advice that was given, just write and don’t worry about what it says, you can always go back and edit. Write like you would in a diary, as it’s kind of like one but one that everyone can see. Good luck with yours and I hope you can get past that first hurdle ☺
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Welcome to the wonderful world of genealogy blogging! Looks like you’re already off to a great start. I hope you will consider joining the Genealogy Blog Party – here’s this month’s prompt: https://mydescendantsancestors.com/2018/01/blog-party-shape-up.html. 🙂
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