Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Have you worked on the matrilineal line of your significant other? Who are the mothers of the mothers of your significant other?
The short answer is yes.
When I started researching my family, I also started researching my husband’s line. As typical for the time period, I had family notebooks with his information.
While I don’t remember the exact year, my husband and I took a trip with my parents to the Grand Tetons. While we could have driven from Kansas thru Nebraska and then Wyoming to get to the Tetons, we took a ‘detour’ and went to Salt Lake City and then thru Idaho to get to the Tetons.
Our detour to Salt Lake included spending three days at the Family History Library. I had all of these great plans to put my husband and my parents to work researching my family. However, my husband informed me that if he was spending three days in a library, he was researching his own family! That’s when he ‘fired’ me and took over the research.
Since retirement, he spends a lot of time not only researching but connecting with cousins. My husband has his own tree in Roots Magic and a copy on Ancestry.
My husband does a fantastic job of researching his tree! However, his strength is his ability to connect with distant cousins. He is the administrator of at least two Facebook groups: Philbrick Family and Jerby Family.
By being fired, I not only have more time for my own research, but I have a companion when traveling to archives and libraries!
I wish my husband would be more interested. He likes hearing what I find, but has no interest in researching himself.
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