Okay, Wiki New Family Searchy Thingy, delete, delete, delete. You’re cool again now.

Anne, I have very much appreciated your postings here about genealogy, and the sense of miraculous that so often attends them. It’s an inspiration to us all.

This is beautifully expressed and helps me understand Anne better with so much more human connection as Anne’s research has connected her to a real human family and important heritage. And then there are those sacred ordinances as Anne sets out in another post: http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/06/09/guest-post-as-arranged/
That’s what I find so amazing is that these stories help us become Saviors on Mount Zion presenting our family names to the Lord for the greatest ennobling of all.

If you can only get connected to one of those Welsh royal lines, you can get back to Joseph of Arimathea who was some sort of cousin to John the Baptist, who was, of course, cousin to You-Know-Who! (But Ardis is going to kill me for bringing up mythological genealogies!)

I got my interest in “genealogy” when I was about your age, sitting on the living room floor with my Aunt Dorothy, who lived next door to me. Surrounding us were family group records of our ancestors. Lovingly, she taught me about each family and person, where they lived, how we were related, and told story after story. I still remember the times she came running from her house to ours with a letter containing some new information from England. As I got older, she took me to Salt Lake City to the early Genealogy Building to help her with research. Still later, my sister and I typed records and stories and pasted pictures and documents into long family memory books. Buy the time she began losing her sight to macular degeneration, she bought a computer and put it in her parlor with a filing cabinet so that my sister and I could continue adding to her early research.