Posts in March 21, 2026

There is a picture of me taken when I was about one year of age. According to me, all of my grandchildren when they were one year of age bore some resemblance to that picture of me. Had my mother been alive, she likely would have agreed with me. Whether the kids actually looked like me or not is another story. But it makes a genealogy point: do we see what we want to see or what is actually there? Sometimes, after years of research and years of knowing living famiy members, it can be easy to have an emotional investment in a certain family origin story. We have to put that story aside when looking at information we have obtained and focus on what the records actually […]