Yippee it's a New Year II  continuation of 1/6/15


Last post was a lead into my purchase of Ancestry dna tests, three of them.
I was in love with the Moses Marks branch and was looking forward to a future of bragging about my Mayflower Descendancy.  I was learning from my Aunt Adelaide about the rumor of being from the Mayflower which led me to begin researching this branch.  My father's mother's branch or Addie Wagg, my father's grandmother.

As I've already mentioned- I now have 3 dna tests.  I use one on my 91 year old father's sister, my aunt Adelaide, one for myself, and one for my mother, the other "eldest". 

My feet were being held to the fire, so to speak.  There was so much to learn, especially after receiving all the results from Ancestry.  I had already built a substantial 'tree'.  Now, a new learning curve came into play-dna and dna matches, and what does that mean?

YEAH LETS DO PURPLE

Would you believe that little rascal of a girl has a favorite color?  She's 2 and 3/4 and likes PURPLE!  I posted about making Lilly's curtain for her room oh back in 2011 when she was born.

She's such a sweet little rascal.  

Her brother Joseph is becoming a 'budding' actor.  So far he has two plays under his belt:
Evita
Frankenstein

And now he's begun rehearsal for A Christmas Carol-  as young Scrooge and Tiny Tim!!

I can't wait to see this new one.

Thank you Lord Jesus for the experiences with my sweet grandchildren.  I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams!!!!

The Craziness of 2019- Me and Stefan

The Larger Enigma

The art of comparing pictures of biological family is real.

This is Alice McCarthy at about 16 years old.  The person on the right is Stefan Antal.  He is probably about 16-17 here.  I see a resemblance but not sure if others do.  These two may share fathers.  Do the pictures appear to be biologically related.  If so, I would say this picture is my 1/2 brother, born just seven months before me on January 3, 1953.

Lots Can Happen in a Short Period of Time

Well this is a jump from "Lots Can Happen"...  I think I've gotten ahead of myself.

This is my grand parents!  I look at her face in this and see myself--- from what I can tell, I look more like her than any of her other grand children.

It is only a small group of us who learn at some later point in life that people that we considered "where we got our..... from" were not really our biological family.  Then there is an even smaller group who have a picture such as this of a couple who you previously would say you knew from Adam...  and now feel as though you look alike----- which could be true given they are in fact your biological family.

So what's to say?  Doesn't matter if you ever knew the facts or not?  True.  But.... you do know- now what?  What to feel?

I've been in tears with the thought, but not entirely sure why I was brought to tears.  Again, I've been thankful to God for how all went down--- how I came to learn.,.... guess really thankful that I had learned who my biological family is.... I could still be searching, as many are.

To be continued....,.