Thread:JenniferLNW/@comment-27145139-20160515230551/@comment-27860632-20160519005420

JenniferLNW wrote:

Anyazora wrote: Too true Jennifer. That's why I would be curious to find out what is actually true. Family mythology is so often wrong. My grandmother always told me her mom was a full blooded Indian, but she was both schizophrenic and an alcoholic so... And we do have one picture of my great grandmother on my dad's side who looks pretty Indian, but who knows? It would be really funny to find out I have none after years of being told the opposite.

I was also told for years (and believed it until I was probably about 20) that my grandfather was named after and the last living descended of the Scottish poet Robert E Burns. The guy who wrote Auld Lang Syne that they sing on New Years. Yeah, I'm thinking that's completely family fable.

You must have put in tons of hours. It's rough studying geneaology. So cool though when you have the info.

My one thought is its too bad it goes through patriarchal records because really the only person you know for sure is a gene relative is the mom. I wonder how much that skews things? Well, I have DNA matches on all sides of my family, so it must work pretty good.

Genealogy appeals to my meticulous nature and love of research and knowledge. My tree has almost 10k people in it now. Of course, not everyone is a fan. My family thinks I spend too much time in cemeteries and it creeps people out that my photos on my iPad are mostly tombstones and death certificates. 😜 My mom and  her  sister  had gathered over  5 notebooks  they  had orginized  of  birth cert, death cert, marriage cert,  pics of  tombstones. IDK how much more they  had  that was not  organized. One  of  my  sisters took it  to see  if  she could make heads or  tails of it when Mom passed.