{"id":2765,"date":"2013-08-06T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2013-08-06T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:01:19","slug":"suddenly-i-have-more-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly.. I have more cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever since our Genogram<\/a> project for class, I have been obsessing over my unknown family members. My genealogy kicks come and go every couple of months where I dig and research looking for any sliver of a relative. When my friend Sarah mentioned Geni.com<\/a>, I created my free account and went to town adding family members. No surprise, mom\u2019s side exploded as I started connecting existing trees. Almost immediately there were 4 generations dating back to the 1700s with my great-great-great-great-great grandfather… so maybe more than 4 generations.<\/p>\n

Anyhow. Not surprising. There are some amazing genealogists in that side of the family.<\/p>\n

Dad\u2019s side looked sad and pathetic with him, his father, his mother and step-family. I googled my grandmother (I do this a lot) and \u2013 holy crap \u2013 I found her obituary. In it were names of her sister, brother and a few other family members.<\/p>\n

*Flexes Google-fu muscles*<\/p>\n

I searched, and searched and found her sister\u2019s obituary with names of her family. Seriously, it was like hitting a winning jackpot. I googled the names I found and actually found one person on FB. I reached out to her and we\u2019ve been chatting the last few days trying to piece things together with the help of her \u2013 and my! \u2013 family members.<\/p>\n

This is so surreal bc I went from knowing nothing to having a bunch of family members and most of them live in Miami.<\/p>\n

Not that it\u2019s even remotely the same thing, but I kinda know how my future child will feel not knowing any of his family members. I was brought up in a loving family full of crazy people and still had that nagging feeling about something missing. My child won\u2019t likely be able to do what I\u2019ve just done and find his long lost family. We really don\u2019t know how much information we will have about his ancestors.<\/p>\n

I am putting together a family tree so he can see where his history is now. I know it\u2019s not the same thing, but I hope it will comfort him just a little bit knowing that he isn\u2019t the only adopted person in our family. Yes, I\u2019ve discovered several adoptions and remarriages in my research.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to do Steve\u2019s tree as well, but that\u2019s something he needs to work on. My ancestral last names are pretty unique whereas his as much more common and I don\u2019t even remotely know everyone\u2019s names.<\/p>\n

Have you done a family tree? How far back were you able to go and did you print it out? That\u2019s my next task.. finding a big enough printer or pretty enough pre-made form to fill in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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