Day 1114: Ancestry

Genealogy has been a minor hobby, but now it's gained more of my attention since Mary's gift at Christmas.  Her investigations spurred my interest so I sent for the DNA test to trace my father's ancestry.  My brother offered a sample of his DNA and tomorrow, I'll mail it off.  Plus, I joined ancestry.com to locate historical records to build on what I know already and verify information we have collected over the years.

I hunted down an article I remembered having from the early 1970s.  In the early 1900s, my great grandmother,  Eliza, left England alone and did not see any of her family again for over fifty years.  Then, her sister Edith came to visit and meet all of the family.  What a joyous reunion!  It was so wonderful for them to have a few weeks together, because in just a few years, both of them were gone.  My great grandmother died at 91, but her sister was only 74.