No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Yesterday, I decided to help my kids by thinning out the family history files I have accumulated over the past 30 years and stored in a four-drawer metal file cabinet. I worked all day, tossing a kitchen trash bag full of paper out of the top drawer. When I finished, the drawer was still full. Which one of you people has been sneaking behind me and filling the drawer? Or is it a magic file cabinet?

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Mardrae · F

?? What exactly do you put in a family history file cabinet? I’ve never heard of that.

exexec · 61-69, C

@Mardrae I have done years of research on my family history, going back hundreds of years in some cases. That results in a lot of documents I have copied, later to be entered into computer files. For example, I was just reading a pamphlet about the church in Boxley, Kent, England, where my ancestor was the vicar in the 1600's.

Jeremi · 41-45, M

@exexec
why are you explaining yourself to her?

exexec · 61-69, C

@Jeremi Why not?

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Mardrae · F

@Jeremi @exexec that’s really cool!! I have a very small family that is already late, so I don’t know much at all about them. Family history is very fascinating!

exexec · 61-69, C

@Mardrae Researching family history is solving one mystery after another. You never finish. Some people do their male line and forget that half of their ancestors were women. Those lines count, too. I love the stories I have uncovered, even the bad ones.

Mardrae · F

@Jeremi @Jeremi wtf is your problem? This is a PUBLIC forum and he posted it to the PUBLIC for them to comment on. Why does the fact that I didn’t understand what family files were bother you so much?

Mardrae · F

@exexec I would love to do something like that. I did a DNA test from 23&me, and uncovered long lost family members but they were already late so I couldn’t contact them.

exexec · 61-69, C

@Mardrae I regret not asking my grandparents a lot of questions when they were around. You can still find out a lot by looking online and contacting known relatives.

Mardrae · F

@exexec all my family are already late. I do have an elderly cousin, but I am not sure if she’s alive or not. We used to talk on the phone once a year but I haven’t heard from her since Covid hit. I tried contacting her, but no answer. I did see a photo album my parents had and my great great great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee and dressed Indian. She was really cute

exexec · 61-69, C

@Mardrae The Cherokees have good records, so that will help you.