Many years ago, my grandmother gave me two old doilies made by my great-grandmother. I put them in a shadow box, placed some biographical information about my great-grandmother on the back, and hung them on my living room wall. We're in a different house, but they're still on the living room wall.
When my grandmother gave them to me, I began to do genealogical research. Needless to say, I didn't get very far. I was an undergrad, busy writing all those college papers! What little research I did was stuffed in a box, which was then moved to four different abodes.
In the meantime, a little boy came along, then graduate school work in library science, followed by a little girl. It was in choosing that little girl's name that a renewed interest in genealogy surfaced (also helped that I had developed an interest in reference materials and information searches in library science). I got to choose her name since my husband had chosen our boy's name. While thinking about names, I looked at those old doilies on the living room wall: Kate! We should name our little girl after my great-grandmother!
Then came another mission: truly research our family's genealogy. Have it not only for my own interest in history, but so that our future generations can have it. So that my Kate can know more about her great-great-grandmother Kate.
This, then, is my story and journey of family research, Nancy Drew style. Using what I learned in library science to help solve the family mysteries.
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