Genealogy is cool!!!

Hello World!!!

SO SORRY ABOUT MY ABSENTEENESS…Well I’m sure some of you are wondering what the hell I’ve been up too…Well I’ve been living my life like it’s golden! My laptop is back and in perfectly good working condition, besides that it just been all rainy and boring.

OH! This weekend I was watching Oprah: Tracing my lineage (or whatever the show was call with Oprah in the title) and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was helping her decode her pass. He was able to trace her genealogy about 6-8 generations back. Well about midway though the program curiosity got the best of me and I start o search Google.com for ways to trace my genealogy. A couple of Google searches lead me to Ancestry.com. I signed up for the 14 day free trial membership and started the search. Boy was I shocked at what I found, so far, I’ve found family records (WWI Registration Cards, Land Ownership Certificates, Death Certificates, etc.) I worked on this all week and am still working on it!!!!!!!!!! I even called my great aunt (89 years old) who told me that, “we have European blood in our veins baby…” (She literally said it like that) Portuguese and Spanish to be exact. She couldn’t remember the names or the place they hair from or even where went when they got to the U.S.(old people…) She only knew that he was (supposedly) a Moorish nobleman in Spain and when the Moors were driven out of Spin he fled to Portugal for a few years then came to America (don’t know why he fled…hopefully for something juicy like murder or a sex scandal) she didn’t even know what year (she could have made all this up to keep me on the phone) anyhow he came to America and fast forward 400 years or so here I am trying to straighten all this shit out.

So once I get all my family matters in order I will have (hopefully) traced my bloodline back to like the 1500s. HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?! I have already found records on my great-great-grandmother who was born in 1850 so I’m well n my way. You should try and search your family on Ancestry.com.