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Personal Discovery

A few posts back I briefly talked about keeping my mother's wedding dress to highlight that genealogy buffs never throw anything away.  This is a story about recently finding a treasure trove of family information that I forgot I had.  I'm almost embarrassed to write about my find because I've taken pride in making a lot of progress in researching my family history in a relatively short amount of time...I've only been involved in genealogy for about four years.  I've been so focused on the internet, the National Archives and the other usual sources that I forgot to look and see what was under my own nose.  What I just found (or relocated) has left me almost speechless.  I have to go back in time a bit to explain the whole thing...    

My Kids and Family History

I think I've finally found someone to continue my genealogy obsession when I pass on - my 2 kids.  Now they are only 10 years old (I have boy-girl twins), but they recently had a reason to become interested in their family's history.  My kids are in the 5th grade, and one of their assignments last fall in Social Studies was to put together a report on their family's heritage.   In the report, they were required to not only talk about where their family came from, but to also discuss the country, it's history and culture.  I was thrilled with this assignment because I've discovered, and my kids have too, that I'm not much help at 5th grade math...there's finally a subject I can actually help them with!