Where Can I Search For and Learn About My Genealogy?
At the recent Rootstech Family History Conference a new credo was emphasized: Discover, Gather, Connect. Much of our searching and learning can be done at familysearch.org. As I reflect on this new credo I remember a family trip in 2005; there was discovery, gathering and connecting going on continually.
For me the trip was the fulfillment of a life-long dream: To take my wife, my six children and their companions (two had not yet married) and my eight living grandchildren (three were under age 2) to see and experience many of the historic sites sacred to our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) and our Ancestors. We added my wife’s cousin, Mary, to the group and after flying to Cleveland we picked up three, seven passenger vans, to carry us into six states on our way to visit ten different sites in just eight days. We assigned each of our children to familiarize themselves with one of the sites so they could teach the rest of us; so gathering information occurred first, along with discovering important connections. My lifetime had been spent gathering, discovering and connecting Ancestors to these sites as well and I had been privileged to visit all but two of the sites before, but never with family.
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