When I told her that I had taken several branches back a thousand years, she was apoplectic.
I tried to explain Ancestry.com to her, but she's not a computer friendly person.
That said, I was lucky to escape with my life (she wanted me to spend the rest of it on hers).
In all seriousness (almost), she was insatiable in her desire for hunting down her ancestors. She was hungry not just for the nobility...she wanted to know about all the scoundrels (and in my family--like all families--there are plenty of those). ;-)
Smiling at you...
It wasn’t until a funeral that I found out my grandfather’s name was really “Poe.”
Enough said.
I understand what you mean about computers.
My dear departed step-mother used to say when I tried to tell he about real events in the news, “Cindy, where do you get these things?”
It wasn’t a compliment, but then, she listened to Brian Williams for the news because “he’s such a nice young man — good looking and soft-spoken.”
One of my uncles did some searching, and discovered that, according to the family lore contained in an obituary, one of our female ancestors had slapped Kaiser Wilhelm. He wasn’t Kaiser yet, they were school children, and he had dipped her braid into the inkwell. :-)
One of my uncles did some searching, and discovered that, according to the family lore contained in an obituary, one of our female ancestors had slapped Kaiser Wilhelm. He wasn’t Kaiser yet, they were school children, and he had dipped her braid into the inkwell. :-)
I did my family history work on the free side of the net and talking to family members. I got great pictures from family but a cousin and another member from Ireland did great work on the paid side. Mine is apassion tha comes and goes with some big bumps(montains)in the road.