It's a New Year- Yipee!!

This aught to be a hum-dinger!  It may come to be right up there with getting my first phone- and I mean landline, driving for the first time (legally), giving birth, graduating college, falling in love. 

I began to dabble in genealogy about 3 years ago, mostly at my mom's prompting (she wondered what happened to aunt so and so?).  It became my most treasured hobby and I immediately became passionate about it.  It has all the earmarks of my favorite things;  reading, researching, writing, problem solving, and a constant and continual mystery  to solve.  One is never finished with genealogy and it doesn't matter!!!! No deadlines, no real rules, just plain hunting, picking, and snooping !!!!

It was the almost instantaneous success right at first that drew me in and the desire for that same satisfaction that kept me going.  It's as much an addiction as any drug and as much of a "high".  

Right at the start I had an affection to Moses Marks- my mother's, mother's, father's, father. That makes Moses my great great grandfather on my mom's side.  I don't know why the affection but I understand it to be a normal "thing" for we genealogists.  His wife Deborah Ann, Anna D, Annie D, was also my first brick wall.  I could not find her maiden name.  Needless to say, there are so many other things to explore that one can put that subject on hold and go elsewhere to search for satisfaction.

Eventually I realized- duh- I have an aunt Adalaide (my father's sister) who is probably the oldest living relative that I know personally (91 years old) that loves to talk and socialize.  After visiting her the first time I was amazed at the state of her memory- excellent.  We came to realize that we were probably decendents of the Mayflower crew!!!!!  Now that's a genealogists dream!! It's like the big "pay-off".  I've been visiting her regularly since August 2014.  

Well like most genealogist's of this highly technical age (the information age), I finally broke down and purchased three Ancestry DNA tests.

To be continued...