Assignment #4: Wild Card
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Genealogy Sites
In August, I joined Ancestry.com to build a family tree and perhaps learn more about my family. My sister-in-law does a lot of genealogy research for her family, so she gave me the idea.
I had always been told that my grandmother kept a lot of genealogy research, but when I contacted the cousin that supposedly had all of this research, there was very little. She sent me a very short, hard-to-read family tree. It was only my grandmother's side and nothing else. That's when I decided to go to Ancestry and build a family tree. Later on, I had my DNA tested as well. I've been discovering some amazing things. However, it does take some money and a lot of time. I haven't had much time to spend on it yet.
Ancestry is just one of many sites where you can research your ancestry online. To do really in-depth research, however, you would need to travel to various places and talk to real people, face…
Genealogy Sites
In August, I joined Ancestry.com to build a family tree and perhaps learn more about my family. My sister-in-law does a lot of genealogy research for her family, so she gave me the idea.
I had always been told that my grandmother kept a lot of genealogy research, but when I contacted the cousin that supposedly had all of this research, there was very little. She sent me a very short, hard-to-read family tree. It was only my grandmother's side and nothing else. That's when I decided to go to Ancestry and build a family tree. Later on, I had my DNA tested as well. I've been discovering some amazing things. However, it does take some money and a lot of time. I haven't had much time to spend on it yet.
Ancestry is just one of many sites where you can research your ancestry online. To do really in-depth research, however, you would need to travel to various places and talk to real people, face…