Donella Vasta: I was in my early 60's when I started doing it seriously. My Mom used to tell me family stories and wrote down what she could for both her side of the family and my Dad's side, but until I had internet access, I did not have much chance to do any serious work on it. Libraries never seem to be able to do the inter-library book thing and I certainly could not afford to go to places to do in person research.
Raye Tredennick: I guess I'm not that old yet cause I don't do it.
Miguel Koczela: I was age 58 when I begin the deepest interest in it, and Iwas doing it for Medical Reasons, esp. on the females, tosee how many generations had about the same type oflocations of illnesses / diseases, and it is amazing what can be found in documentation too. I was able to research and document proof of 8 to 9generations of females, and what they suffered from at various ages, etc.I discovered at what age they were when they married,at what age they were when ! they had the first baby, andwhat age they were when they had the last baby...andhow many babies died at birth or were stillborn, andhow close the pregnancies were, and how many kidswere still at home when the youngest was born, andfrom that determined what ''genes'' have been passeddown to cause an illness or weakness in the body.In the men, it seemed that it was the liver or thestomach, of certain generations and in another it washeart disease, or cancer of these, and it was not untilrecent generations that lung cancer and more heartdisease, and severe cancers of the stomach developed,and so did the contents / additives of the food items,change from generation to generation, and filters oncigarettes began to be more common...You can learn a lot from the study of your ancestors, and cousins.One lineage might have more of one disease in it,than the other lineage will, and that is most interesting.My brother and a cousin researched history for over 30 years and they are just ! interested in the statistics of it,but I like to search for th! e family stories, and how thepeople lived their lifestyles.For instance, when my great-grandfather came from Tennessee, (Robert Hatten Wright), he was the son ofa U.S. Marshall, and he married a woman, AmandaElizabeth Griffith, a woman of lace dresses and a dowryof $1,200..00, (got paid to take her off the family's hands,so to speak), and when they got to Oklahoma, he didn'thave an easy life. He went on a cattle drive to Montanaand took one of his sons, age 9, and it took 3 years togo there and back. He later became a make of whiskeyand made lye soap, an homebrew, and I found the listof all these ingredients on a debt paper he owed a localgrocery store when he died, and his probate papers are50 pages long, detailing how his $1,000 life insurancewas to be spend. His widow got $30..00 allowance, afterthe funeral was paid, and store too. this was in 1926.It cost the widow $3.00 for transportation to go 32 milesto get the $30, too. That's where the life insurance policywas in a! n account there.So, yes you can learn many things when searching familyhistory.A person doing research needs to search for probate recordsbecause you might have some Legal Rights to some landor Mineral Rights...you just never know what you can dis-cover, when digging up...family skeletons..(Too Funny)...Show more
Raleigh Lufkin: I was in my early 40's when I first started getting interested, but didn't actually do anything but make mental notes and sort through old photos until I was 50. Last year my sister and I both got busy and started putting together everything we knew about the family, asking questions, buying software, joining ancestry.com, and getting into the research of the ancestors we never knew anything about. It's been interesting, but we have a long, long, ways to go........
Jed Porada: When I was 8 or 9 years old. My father's side of the family loved to tell stories about their families and where they came from, so I started with that. I also h! ave always loved history, so tracking down my ancestors is like finding! my own personal history. Plus, a lot of times you find family secrets that are fairly surprising (children born out of wedlock, cheating spouses, ancestors who did time in prison, etc.) making me realize that people really aren't that different over the span of time.With so many resources on the internet, it's much easier to start researching your family history than in the past. My mother-in-law also is into genealogy, so it gives me something to talk about with her....Show more
Cherry Stampka: i have always been interested in my family history even when i was a kid. maybe because my grandmother was so hush hush about it it sparked my curiosity. though i have found nothing that shocking to me i guess in her day maybe it was more so. i just find it interesting to know where i started and to see how far it goes when my time ends.
Patrick Bitsui: Well my great,great aunt always did genealogy and talked about the family and the stories of our family. I was abou! t 18 yrs old when it started to matter to me and I really became interested in making my contribution about 10 years ago and thats why to remember my Ancestors and to record the story of there lives and to make sure its passed on after I die to future generations.
Jude Colbenson: I was ten years of age. My neighbor, a sixty year vet of it, got me started. Since then, I have found out I am a blood descendent of Bonnie Prince Charlie..Charles Stuart. Robert the Bruce..mom's side. My father's..Hatfield and McCoy. Also on my father's side, I am blood to three important Cherokee Chiefs in the Eastern Cherokee. Do a Yahoo Search on Chief Red Bird. He's my 6th Gr-Grandfather. It's a wonderful thing that keeps a disabled person going. I became a professional genealogist in 1998....Show more
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