The View From Wisconsin

Just a random set of rants from a Sports Fan from Wisconsin.

Geneaology Fun

Digging into your family's past can be a fun thing. Just a few things that I didn't know about my family a few weeks ago that I know now:

I have a great-great grandfather, all the way over on my mother's mother's mother's side, that was a Civil War veteran. He apparently married my great-great grandma after he got back from the war, and they had my mom's grandmother.
My mom's family may be partially Jewish. Though most of my grandfather's family is very obviously German, it appears that my great grandfather's wives were both sisters, both born in Germany - and both Jewish. I suddenly have this though of relatives in Germany who didn't make it through WWII.
I have a Mormon relative a few generations back - which could make things easier for me to do ancestry searches in the future, should I ever decide to head to Utah.

The thing about doing your geneaology is, the more you find out, the more questions you end up having. And right now, I'm at that stage of the game.

# posted by Joseph Houk @ 8:09 PM - 0 comments