About Me

I am happily married to my soul mate and together we have 3 kids who keep us on our toes and are our pride and joy.  Since our kids were born I have been able to be a stay at home, and I have devoted most of my time to leadership positions and volunteering with my children's activities. It was during this time that I decided to do something just for me and began the hobby of genealogy.  

I have found that I really love it and am really good at it too! I learned this when I friends and family for help. Some had no idea on where to even start, others had been doing it for 40+ years. I have the perfect balance of knowing where to look in person and online and how to test theories and see if my hunches may be correct or if someone else's research isn't correct. 

For fun I decided to see if I could actually prove my lineage for the Daughters of the American Revolution, I was able to and am a member of my area DAR.  Then I decided to go further and prove my lineage for the Society of Mayflower descendants. I have successfully joined them as well. 

To learn more about myself I took an Ancestry DNA test and learned I wasn't as Irish as I'd been told I was. I also ruled out the rumor of having some Native American lineage. Because I wasn't as Irish as I thought and didn't know half of my parentage I decided to do a 23&Me test. This not only answered a lot of health questions but also introduced me to relatives I wasn't aware of. 

With genealogy, there are so many different branches you can look at and so many ways to look. You can chip away at a brick wall, or further look into a person learning who they were. You can look at your DNA and figure out how you are related to people, and use it to chip away at those brick walls. You can start writing down and sharing what you learn, to teach others and help others remember. 

My favorite part of genealogy is finding the people that have been forgotten over time. Maybe they don't have any living descendants, or maybe there aren't any curious enough to go looking. They still had remarkable lives! And those lives enrich ours as well- by learning of their trials and tribulations, being proud of their actions or ensuring we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.