Along with the planting that I hope to start soon, I have given myself a new summer project to work on, which involves researching my family genealogy in greater detail. I started this project sometime back, but have since had to close the original account (and now find I cannot access it.)
However, since the last time I worked on this, a great deal more information has been made available (thanks to the work of my sister, niece and a cousin-in-law who I have never met, and who, I am surmising, has a great deal of time on her hands! Their combined work has made me aware of additional family roots that go back to various places in Europe.
While the information has been, so far, helpful in letting me know where my family has lived, it has not yet given me insight to how they lived. Who were these people? What were their days like? Did they experience the same joys and sorrows, appreciate the beauty of nature, accept the terminal nature of their existence and still seek to learn, grow and understand?
The first summer project will give me food to fill my plate; the second, food for thought to enrich my mind.
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