14 October 2009  Why we do it  One of the first things people
often ask is why the interest in a bunch of dead people? Why do
you do genealogy? For me there are many reasons I do it. It
gives you a sense of who you are and where your family came from
but most importantly it gives you a sense of belonging to a
group of people who have helped form this world. Genealogy helps
you understand history by looking at it through their eyes as
they must of seen it and experienced it. Anyone can dig up dates
of births and deaths and so on but to me genealogy is so much
more. There is a poem that states we are the story keepers and
we keep the stories and people alive by putting their stories on
the bones. Making that person not only a bunch of numbers but a
person who lived and breathed. They had a name, a spouse,
children they had a story, they lived life. Our job as the story
keepers is to keep that persons story even after they have
passed on. As a tribute to them but also to say thank you for
the heritage they have