Blessings of Genealogy Work
As I continue my Documents Project, I am surprised at how often I reached out to others through phone calls, letters, emails, and visits. It was so uncomfortable every single time! Yet, I look at the valuable information I have learned and the friendships and relationships I have been able to foster through my reaching out. Everyone I have ever contacted has been wonderful and my life has been blessed to make acquaintances with distant relatives. I look back at the letters, phone calls, interviews and I wonder how I was so brave? Well, I was able to have the support of my father. He helped my bravery by willingly accompanying me for visits and helped with interviews of relatives. It is always easier to enter the unknown with your father by your side. In May of 2012, Dad and I drove to Iowa to research and meet the descendants of Sarah Ann Roberts(11) and Joseph Jones(19). We researched at the Iowa GenealogicalSociety and the State...