More about gravestones...

Another great factor about visiting cemeteries is that you can often see a married woman's maiden name, dates of birth and death, and spouses or other family that was buried near them. This can mean they're a great resource for furthering your family history research!

Great Resource: Cemeteries

It may seem a bit morbid and disrespectful to go around cemeteries taking photos, but I took a walk with my dad to a graveyard where he knew some of my relatives were buried. Luckily for me, my family has lived in the area I live since the beginning of time (or so it seems) so it's pretty handy for me.
I think an image of someone's headstone is a really personal detail that is part of their history, and so I have these images to build up a full picture of the lives and deaths of my relatives.
What do you think of this? Too creepy?

My family tree currently has 94 individuals on it, going back to the early 1800s. It's so exciting seeing this huge web of people coming together.
I basically transcribed a rudimentary family tree my Grandma drew me onto Genes Reunited, but I lost my enthusiasm for this site after I paid to see some records then they take away your ability to look at them after a while. If I could go back I'd print screen them, but they're pretty sneaky and only let you see a little bit at a time. Grr!

The Roots...

The roots of my family tree are my immediate/nuclear family. These are the people I will be basing my family tree on, since they are the main part of my family, and my family branches out from there.

Another way to think about this is that we are the leaves of the huge huge tree of humanity. I am an anthropology student and I am fascinated by the intricate evolution and radiation of the modern human species over the globe.

I've always, always been interested in my family history, as what could be more important to the person you are than the people you came from? This combined with my recent realisation that my most valuable sources of information (my grandparents) won't be around forever, has awoken a desire in me to deeply research and document my family tree and history, hopefully not just with names and dates, but important details about their way of life too.

While this blog is an effort to keep my thoughts on track, I also hope it will be a good resource for others wishing to document their family tree and hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Cally