re: #128 negativ

Genealogy is fascinating, but the people in my family who were into it weren’t especially rigorous in their research, and were a bit too enthusiastic about finding out whether they were related to the king of this or the princess of that, and they always seemed to be satisfied in only tracing back to the first ancestors to live in the New World. About the only reliable information I was able to glean was that my earliest immigrant ancestor was a Czech dude who built pipe organs.

While I supposed discovering that there some sort of direct relation to nobility or someone big historically would be neat I wonder why it’s so important to some people. So what if you’re related to Princess Peanuckle? What’s that doing for you now. :) Through my family research we’ve discovered that most were just regular working people which now would be considered ‘working’ class. Thatchers, blacksmiths, farmers and even a line of char women (housekeepers). I’m totally okay with that. Proud of that really. People that actually made what the big hoity historical personages did possible.