Genealogy and Family History

Started by Gualberto Bathan Hernandez on Monday, April 26, 2010
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4/26/2010 at 10:52 PM

"WHY Are You Interested in Genealogy and Family History?
by Robert Ragan

Yes, you like genealogy and want to know more about your family tree, but…WHY?

Over the years, I've found many interesting reasons others have for their passion about genealogy and what they want to accomplish during their journey.

We all have our personal reasons as to why we are interested in our ancestors and our heritage.

How many of these reasons fit you?

You simply want to discover more about where you and yours came from.

You are the "Keeper of the Family Records" and realize how important information about your heritage is, and you hope one of your children or grandchildren will catch the genealogy bug so you can pass the torch to them one day.

You want to put your genealogy in a book, even if it is a notebook, and share it with your family.

You love mysteries, and the thrill of following the clues drive you.

You want to prove that all your family stories are true.

You love puzzles, and boy, do you have a big box full of family history puzzle pieces.

Do any of these reasons hit home?

So, tell me about the "Why" of YOUR passion for genealogy:

I would love to hear about it. This can really be inspiring and fun."

2/3/2011 at 2:34 PM

I found this buried deep in the archives, and although I don't know Gualberto, the person who originally posted it (nor the person who is quoted), it asks some great questions that are of interest to me--and so I wondered if any of you would like to share your stories and your reasons about why you are passionate about genealogy?

I think this is an especially good place to ask this, since we who are on Geni are from all over the world and can provide a real diversity of cultural perspectives about why genealogy may be important to us.

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