When I came back from Japan earlier in this millenium, I spent a long time looking for a job.
And as most people know, you cannot keep doing the same thing over and over and over again...there's got to be a diversion in there somewhere.
I researched my roots...found 700+ ancestors and that was just going back in time, NOT looking at relatives living now.
Lots of fun...I am a ninth cousin of Prince Charles. Still didn't get invited to the wedding. My kids are the same ages, born the same years, same sex as William and Harry, but they never invite us to
come play.
George Washington, yea, the president, is related, but only because he married a relative. He and his wife didn't have any kids.
I had one uncle die in prison during the Civil War. I thought it good to have a bit of 'color' in my roots. Turns out he was captured and starved to death.
I started at www.ancestry.com . It was free then and went many places since. There's a lot of holes and it could use some verifying I am sure...but it's not THAT important to me...I am still the knothead that I am.
Comes from inbreeding...my grandparents on my father's side's great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents were the same people....Hugenots, came over from France.
Besides the lesson I have learned...it's not as important where/who you came from as it is who you are and where you are headed.
So, what about you? Have you researched your roots? What did you find there?
And...while I am at it, I have in mind one geneaology that I think is the most important one of all...there was inbreeding, prostitutes and kings in it as well.
Guesses?
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