How many family generations do you know you have? Do you have a family genealogy tree saved somewhere to pass down? I have been blessed with a photo of my mothers side for three prior generations.

My grandmother, great grand parents and great great grandmother. Yes, as a child I was blessed to have my grandmother live with us for awhile(although I didn't think it was at the time). She make beautiful hooked and braided rugs. I remember we had to hold the ends of the fabric while she braided it for the rugs. She made each of us children, there were nine of us a rug (sadly I never got to see them). I vaguely remember her frame for hooking rugs from fabric rags. She was sickly with diabetic. She died when I was a young teen.

I didn't get the family tree bug until I hit my 50's and a distant niece contacted me by email. Boy oh boy did the bug hit. I researched constantly for a few years until I started to hit dead ends. Thankfully, my brother in law had done research for many years and given me a head start. I just followed that start. There are still loose ends, but something to go on. Mostly, word of mouth from family memebers.