What's your favourite part of researching your family?

Question

I love finding a new lead in my family research, and the joy it gives me. A single buzz like that can spur hours of research!

Answer 1

New leads for me too.

Answer 2

I like that it is possible that I am a direct descendant of King David.

Answer 3

We have been told that we certainlny belong to one of 12 tribes of Israel and we are Africans.Can i found elsewhere joyce greater than the idea of being maybe part of the tribe of manasse and ephrahim? I am ready to spend the rest of my life to search,search ands earch and finaly find who i am...

Answer 4

I love finding the next name back...

so far.. I have all the Great grandparents ... and this week I added another name to the list of great great grandparents.

I also went to the Church where my grandparents were married in 1925... unfortunately I arrived on the only day it was locked. Still it was nice to see where they married.

BUT at the same time I hate dead-ends .. or where family scandal was avoided by WHITE LIES .. makes it really difficult to trace the tree.

Answer 5

I have had many wonderful experiences in doing my search and met many wonderful people to whom I can now claim kinship. I remember the man who went to his barn and brought an old branding iron to show me.  He said that when he moved onto that farm they tore down an old barn and under it they found this old branding iron and he had always wondered who it had belonged to and something about these people.  I went out to my car and brought him a copy of the registration of that very brand by an ancestor four generations ago. That was a special day for us all.

   I remember an old man who took me to the graves of two adults and three children very deep in the woods in a rural county in Mississippi.  He said he was raised in those woods and as a boy hunted squirrels in the area.  The graves, he said, to his knowledge, had never been visited by any one but him and that he doubted that any other person even knew that they were there.  The adults headstones could be read and they showed that the date of death was in 1863 for both of them.  The children's graves were outlined with rocks and had no head stones.  That night, back in my motel room, looked at my copies of the 1860 census and found the two adults listed with five children. The next day I went back to the old man and left my census sheet copy with him. It showed names and dates of birth for all members of the family and it showed relationships of the family members and in what state they had been born and where their parents were born.  My family had relocated from the area in 1858 so they were not there on the 1860 census but I suspect that they had been neighbors on the adjoining farm. That too was a very special day for all of us.

  I have many other stories and I guess I need to write a book.

Answer 6

my favourite part of sport in all family

Answer 7

My favorite part is discovering old camp friends and acquaintances are related to me.

Answer 8

Discovering some of the wacky things some of them did, like the couple who eloped, and the girl's father chased them all the way from Austria to the North Sea, where they escaped on a ship to America.

Not all were quite so happy in their wackiness.  One was shot on Napoleon's personal orders for being a (royal?  Imperial?) pain in Nappy's butt.