I am not so easily led. I like to back up my research. I too was drawn in when I saw trees with possible royal connections. Yes, I did do a temporary lemming thing and plugged them into Charlie’s tree. Then I started to do the back-up research. It was very disappointing to erase all those high sounding names when reality struck. Unfortunately, although they share a name, Charlie is not related to Charles. Little did I know that lurking in another part of his tree, behind some unassuming farm folk, was the real deal, Henry II and Charlemagne!
My sister is the genealogist in the family. Long before I ever logged onto Ancestry.com, she had already researched our family tree. As a kid, one of her favorite pastimes was scanning the phone book and trying to make connections with people we knew. She loved to check out the family tree book that had been complied by my grandmother’s family. There were some interesting names, like several generations of men called “Preserved Fish.” I fell into doing genealogical research after I retired and now I am hooked. We both got excited when Charlie expressed an interest in knowing about his relatives. Even though Charlie is not even vaguely related to us (although I suspect we both might have a connection somewhere to George W. Bush) we jumped on the opportunity to explore the mystery of a new family tree. I think that is what the appeal is for me, the mystery. I feel like a sleuth when I do genealogical research. I like the feeling of my mind humming along, looking for connections. And who knows, you might hit the jackpot and find a real honest to goodness KING!
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Linda Marie Pace
9/4/2015 07:41:29 pm
Charlie is sooooo excited about this research. We will be watching Lion in The Winter soon. And sharing all the data...
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