What type of person researches their family tree?
Certainly a person who traces his/her family would have to enjoy research. But I think it all started because my mother used to tell my siblings and me stories at bedtime, and they were really great when she fell asleep in the middle of one and continued with the story, anything could happen. She and my father also saved old family pictures and told stories which had been passed down in the family about their ancestors. We heard about greats who swam to safety after a riverboat fire and one 14 year old who nearly died at Bull Run and had to have his leg amputated. Dad repeated the words that were spoken over 100 years before by the corpsmen who saved his grandfather and told me about a rebel soldier who gave him his canteen. I was hooked. My history classes couldn’t compete with this and memorizing dates and jingles to remember dates became a tedious exercise in futility. History books seem designed to make kids hate history when it is actually quite interesting. But I degress. Not man
