I'm lucky enough to have a history buff great-uncle who wrote a sort of book about one side of my family. He managed to trace part of my family back to records from Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England in 1611. I have no idea how he managed to do this. It tells about attacks by Native Americans and stuff later in the colonies. How do people find this stuff out? I'm impressed.
I know hardly anything about my mother's side of the family other than the fact that my grandfather constantly tells me I'm somehow related to Judy Garland (her real name gives it away and I have older relatives who looked like her and it's scary.) They also tell me that they are mostly German.
Do you know a lot about your family? Do you care? If you do know, what's the earliest you can trace? Things like this really interest me.
2006-07-27
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