09/05/2024
I just reached 64,000 people in my Ancestry Family Tree. One day last century, my daughter needed help on some homework to provide a list of her family. To me "my family" had been my parents / grandparents / aunts/ uncles and cousins that we visited and played with when I was growing up. I wrote these down along with Janice's immediate family. I could have left it there, but I always wanted homework to be "Perfect+++".
I remember whenever daddy took us out shopping, he would strike up a conversation with several people in the store or on the street. I would ask him later who that was, and he would say "That was my cousin". I always thought how he remembered all of them, especially since he was an only child and we did have any Byrd cousins at all. I called my parents and asked them about who else was part of my family. They named out a few more and Mama mentioned that so-and-so had been making her family tree and she would get it for me. I thought I had better start writing this down.
As they say "The rest is History." What started out as a 3rd grade homework assignment is now a 64,000 person family tree.
