The Last.

Last week was the 75th issue of this blog in AncestorFamily. A milestone achieved since the end of January 2023. In the beginning, a subject was published twice a week. The writings began before this and had actually commenced around December 2022. I have spoken of learning recently and in the beginning, I needed to learn how this site worked. It was a very steep learning curve.

The majority of my writings are about my learning and discoveries within my experience of the subject called genealogy. During my writings on this subject, at times, I have gone on an emotional roller coaster. Pulling all the ancestor stories together is one of these situations. It wasn’t just one week but several. An extreme amount of time on research occurred to put these events into story format. In this process, I learnt so much about my ancestors. I discovered things I never knew from handwritten letters.

I asked a question about why is it that people – those researching family history – do not want to write their ancestor stories. I wasn’t really shocked by the most common response. “I don’t have time! Or, I will get to it later!” Ah people, you’re doing your research so as you research you write the story! If you need any help read my blog about “The Creative Family Historian.” The answers lie within – within you! You’re not going to be around forever.

Looking at what I had wanted to achieve when I began this blog, I feel as though I have. I have no idea how many hours I have spent writing the 75 blogs so far (and even this one, the 76th as I write.) It has been something that I have not really taken into account. I generally have an idea of what my writing will be about. I usually have no idea where it will go or how it will end. I seem to always commence with the title and off I go with the writing – as I am now! By the way, all my writings start out as handwritten words.

Well, the reason will become evident very shortly. Things I have noticed during the past 18 months is that my own research has taken a battering. Life also gets in the way as most of you would know. So for the next few months, my weekly postings will stop. My writings will not. From the writings I have done about my ancestors, I need to attach all of this information to my own computer database within my family tree. All the research done in connection with these stories also needs to be attached.