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Serial Killer In The Family
Who could you be related to?
My Great-Aunt Kay got me interested in our family genealogy when I was a teenager. I had been interested in our Civil War ancestors, she had been the family historian for quite a while, and had traced our various lines back many generations. With all of the copies of records she sent me, I was hooked in no time. Ancestry DNA has also been a bonus, linking me genetically with thousands of cousins and finding our common relative(s).
The result of this passion has been hours spent searching records, links, and personal stories to establish who belonged to who. Anyone who works on their family history knows that hours can seem to go by in a minute while trying to connect the dots.
Thankfully, my husband and I are both into genealogy, so we understand when the other one is on a roll and will be looking at our respective “dead people” for hours. Along the way, we’ve found some pretty incredible things. My husband’s lines include a familial link to Daniel Boone, some of the first European explorers to what is now Detroit, and generations of British aristocrats and royalty. I also have quite a bit of British royalty but also lots of farmers, pastors, coal miners, and very early settlers of America, including the founder of Connecticut, Thomas Hooker.
