Reply #42: Of course I get your point!

[Cybergata]

Do you get my point about how genealogy has been an obsession for me for the past four years, and I love researching. I'm a middle school History teacher that teaches both the first half of U.S. History and New México History, the history of both my Hispanic and Non-Hispanic parents. In the summer I do a lot of research, and it is a great escape from the craziness of working in public school during the school year. The age of the kids, 11-14, is challenging, but the administration/politics would drive most people insane.

Anyway, twenty pages! I guess you didn't check out my website. Twenty pages are the tip of the ice berg for me. And yes, we are all but specks of dust in this universe, as was every single ancestor. Who besides me could care less that my search for records for Celia Walker show that she married late to the boy next door, her husband died soon after, she was left with a daughter, she moved with her daughter to Nebraska when it still was a frontier, a lot of her siblings didn't leave the home of their father, and she ended up back in Pennsylvania, where she was born, in an insane asylum! Oh yes, she was named after her grandmother Sela Cooley, and my grandmother's middle name came from her. But for me, piecing together as much of the puzzle and the story is very special. Also, the stories of my Hispanic ancestors are as fascinating at the history of the state I live in. Most people wouldn't have my perspective. I simply love History, and genealogy is the perfect road to travel back into it. . .so I've found a lot of my ancestors. I have some brick walls, but I've connect a lot of the dots. I even found a common ancestor for my husband and myself.