Do you have a bazillion cousins?
I have nine first cousins and can't say I have much to do with any of them. Three are closer to my parents in age and the others are spread across the continent and we haven't seen each other for decades. I find this a bit sad at times. I often see those posts on facebook and such about cousins being your first friends etc and so many people agree or share them, yet it isn't the case for me. Worse still my kids don't really have any sort of relationship with their cousins either. Most are way older or live away from us or just the victims of disfunctional families.
But I have a stack of 'eleventy billion times removed' cousins and I really value them. The joy of facebook, ancestry, DNA and such have connected us and I have met many of them. We all have a common interest of research our families and connecting with the past. We are all centimetres across from each other and generations apart on a print out of our trees but closer than ever through our interests.
It is this connection that saw me take a plane and drive almost four hours to visit some of these cousins and spend a day with them and meet other new ones.
And it was totally worth it.
To hear stories, share photos and experience that connection that began four generations ago was a privilege and I feel truly blessed to be connected to these people.
To all the people I have met through genealogy and will continue to meet.
Thank you all for sharing myobsession interest.
I have nine first cousins and can't say I have much to do with any of them. Three are closer to my parents in age and the others are spread across the continent and we haven't seen each other for decades. I find this a bit sad at times. I often see those posts on facebook and such about cousins being your first friends etc and so many people agree or share them, yet it isn't the case for me. Worse still my kids don't really have any sort of relationship with their cousins either. Most are way older or live away from us or just the victims of disfunctional families.
But I have a stack of 'eleventy billion times removed' cousins and I really value them. The joy of facebook, ancestry, DNA and such have connected us and I have met many of them. We all have a common interest of research our families and connecting with the past. We are all centimetres across from each other and generations apart on a print out of our trees but closer than ever through our interests.
It is this connection that saw me take a plane and drive almost four hours to visit some of these cousins and spend a day with them and meet other new ones.
And it was totally worth it.
To hear stories, share photos and experience that connection that began four generations ago was a privilege and I feel truly blessed to be connected to these people.
To all the people I have met through genealogy and will continue to meet.
Thank you all for sharing my
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