What is your ethnicity?

*IndigoErth* · 02-22-2017, 05:21 PM

Why does it need to do anything? No one has to be interested their family history, but some people are.

All it "does" for me is fulfill a fascination with family history, a hobby and challenge to work on, and something I can pass down and keep that knowledge going of who we are as a family. Genealogy is a puzzle and some people enjoy the hunt for clues and trying to find unknowns. I finally last year after SO MANY years found a little more info for one of my tough dead ends and got one step further. That it took so long was worth that feeling of finally finding that breakthrough I was so sure was there somewhere.

There were also a few names I found and added to the tree last year of kids who died as infants.

Rather sad to see and find out one of my sets of great grandparents dealt with losing an 11 month old baby, but I like being able to add these kids names to keep them in some way from being entirely forgotten.

I suppose those of us who do care about this stuff are probably likewise people who don't want to be forgotten either.

View Poll Results: What is your ethnicity?
White, primarily	26	60.47%
African American, primarily	3	6.98%
Mixed (explain)	5	11.63%
Asian	1	2.33%
Middle Eastern	0	0%
Hispanic	7	16.28%
Other	1	2.33%
Voters: 43. You may not vote on this poll

02-22-2017, 05:21 PM	#11
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 15,242	Why does it need to do anything? No one has to be interested their family history, but some people are. All it "does" for me is fulfill a fascination with family history, a hobby and challenge to work on, and something I can pass down and keep that knowledge going of who we are as a family. Genealogy is a puzzle and some people enjoy the hunt for clues and trying to find unknowns. I finally last year after SO MANY years found a little more info for one of my tough dead ends and got one step further. That it took so long was worth that feeling of finally finding that breakthrough I was so sure was there somewhere. There were also a few names I found and added to the tree last year of kids who died as infants. Rather sad to see and find out one of my sets of great grandparents dealt with losing an 11 month old baby, but I like being able to add these kids names to keep them in some way from being entirely forgotten. I suppose those of us who do care about this stuff are probably likewise people who don't want to be forgotten either.