Posted by:
aquarius
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Date: May 19, 2015 11:50PM
Has anyone kept looking up the family tree, after ditching Mormonism?
(danger: LOOOooong winded)
I would say, that I'm at least, a little bit of history buff.
(I have an uncle, that was going to be a history teacher, before Vietnam called)
Sometimes I do it. I was fiddling around with it, tonight. Sometimes I think, that it's just some Moron-ism "busy work". Sometimes I think, *look at where I'm from, who I came from*.
How many (probably, more than I can think of; that *family tree*, has a lot people), can say, that they are descended, from a *personal body guard, of Gen. Geo. Washington*?
A (several) branch, settled, in the Midwest, just after the War of 1812, and have been here ever since. I can trace to local business folks and a whole lot of references to a series of local history books. That *local business folk* seems to a persistent streak, in my family. I work, for myself. So does Pops. He & grandpa, tried to *do it* & work for others. Well, I do that, too. I can find G / GG / GGG grandparents, living within the area, that I live in. Some are *just immigrants, from the *old country**.
I'm, unfortunately, a 3rd / 4th cousin (14? x's removed) of ole' horny Joe.
I make my $$ honestly, tho.
I have a *somewhat* rare last name. *Somewhat rare* is, where I live, you ARE related to me! I can tell you, the exact relationship! Anyone with it, in person, is related, to me. Elsewhere, maybe, not so much.
I sometimes get, *Did you know, there is a *Smith Road, in Anywheresville?*. Yes, and it's named after, someone, who is related to me.
Every time, that I have heard this, it's a street / road, it's in an area, that I can *prove* that someone related to me, has lived there.
Anyone, with my last name, within 300 (or 500 / 1,000?) miles, is a *cousin*. WithOUT the polygamy. I can trace my *family*, in several areas, of the country.
Anyway's, my original question:
Has anyone kept looking up the family tree, after ditching Mormonism?