I am trying to post regularly this month. I made a good start of it but then suddenly, I totally forgot that I was blogging at all because I got completely sucked into the mystery of where my paternal grandfather was stationed during World War II.
I have had an account at Ancestry.com for years. I must have sprung for a paid account at some point, then canceled it, of course, because I’m cheap, but I paid $19.95 the other night and fell deeply into the black hole of my ancestors and the mystery of the past.
I still have not figured out where my grandfather was stationed but I have traced my family back to colonial days and even beyond that to England and France. I also realized to my utter shock that “Rebecca” the was not native American at all (“Indian,” according to family lore), but part of the line that originated in France.
Of course, while the names and dates are interesting, the really interesting facts of these long-ago people are missing almost entirely. Then I began to wonder if my descendants will some day find this blog and know a little bit more about me than I know about Margaret or Eleanor who were born in England in the early 1600s. They were my 10th great-grandmothers on my father’s side. Too bad they didn’t have blogs.
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I feel your pain.
i have too often fallen into the Ancestry black hole, where i vow to spend 1 hr then come up for air 3 hrs later. The up side is i have been able to locate my adopted mil birth parents and her siblings and this past summer she met them for the first time. It was awesome.
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