My Continued Love of Ancestry

I’m sure I’ve written about my love of Ancestry before but it’s grown a lot deeper recently and will probably keep growing as long as I have breath or Ancestry keep showing my records.

I’ve been looking again this morning and what do I find. Crying child Smith is what the child is listed on it’s Birth Certificate as? I take it that the poor child cried a lot from that but fancy having that on your Birth Certificate or your Papers when you become an Adult and needed them. Bearing in mind this was the fifteen hundreds.

This child grew up to be my 10th Great Grandfather by the way. How do Ancestry prove it? I did my DNA test and it came back with where it was found as I think I’ve said before but when they should you who your’e a match for or whatever on your tree they show you how you are connected and come forward from there. So my DNA is a match for the Duke of Monmouth and his Mistress Lucy. They then show me how I go up from him on his side and down from Lucy and the match is from ‘their’ child. It connects to my Grand Mother on my Father’s side and therefore me. They give me the full list of people in our connection via a drop down bar. Although I’m not in line for the Throne like someone we all know lol. Thank goodness. I mean could you imagine Queen Carol ROFL.

I’ve decided to take a break from the run of the mill family stuff and look deeper into my background and go back into the sixteeth and fifteeth centuries where I have matches. That’s really fascinating. It’s where I meet people like my 11th, 12th and 13th Grand Parents and learn about them. The people with massive Titles, the people who had nothing and the people who went to the New World. Australia, America to seek their fortunes.

There was a knock on my front door not long ago and a man and his wife stood there. Hi ya. He said. It was my Cousin from Australia who had come to see me. We met over Ancestry. Never knew each other existed before.

I also love the thing they provide called Thru Lines. I can go on there and find out who I’m related to through the lines of my past family. I found someone who lives three street away from me.

So that’s why Ancestry has become such a big part of my life. I can also show my son about his Ancestors. It’s true. Ancestry isn’t for everyone and I appreciate that but for me I love it. It shows me who I came from. My background, my History and appreciate how many of my family perished in Concentration Camps and to find out the true details of one special lady who was an SOE agent.