ROOTS!!! (warning really really long)

I am blogging okay Aimee? Happy Now? *wink*

Ok, first, many appoligies for my hiatus. Life has just gotten away with me. My Husband will blame it on my Kindle. I beg to differ. I blame it on just plain life. I always think "Oooh! I need to blog about this" and then by the time I get time to do it, its is lost to me...

But I have a new project, which I think will bring me back to blogging. Although you may be uterly bored with it.

I have recently been researching my families ancestry. Most people think I started because of that new TV show "who do you think you are" however, really I got into it back during this opening ceremonies of the winter games. This might sound weird so brace yourself:

As I was watching the different countries come in, each with their own "look" to them. I know we are a melting pot society, but I can definately see similar "looks" within the different countries of athletes coming in. 

Anywho, I was watching them come in, and as we saw different countries, Chad and I were pointing out the "people" of friends of ours, for example, a good friend of Chad has ancestry that originates in Lithuania so we said "Oh there is *Z's* people" or Chad's family originates from Whales, so when UK came in we said "There's Chads people"

As I was watching, a thought slowly crept in the back of my mind: I don't really know who "My People" are...

I don't know anything about my heritage. When did we get here, what did we do when we got here, what is the story of the many many souls and lives that came before me and the path that ultimately led to myself entering the world (and subsequently, my daughters).

I called my Nana during the Olympics and she told me I was Irish and Polish, and that my Nana's grandpa came through Ellis Island when he was 5. That satisfied my hunger for the time being, I wouldn't have even known where to begin to research it to get more info than that.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I saw my DVR'd Oprah episode where she was promoting that new show on NBC and the light bulb went off in my head. I signed up for ancestry.com and started researching.

I have been blown away with the information I have learned about my family. I went from someone who literally had no idea about anything about where she came from, or who she came from to someone who has built an extensive family tree on all sides of her family. Its amazing.

I look at my family tree and am just overwhelmed with the many names and "branches" on my tree. Each Name a life many that have come and gone. Each life, a unique story with memories and untold history. Unfortunatly memories and stories long gone but for the information provided in official documents. But each name in my roots I feel a connection to. And I feel like its my duty to make sure that our history doesn't get lost. That someday when my girls care (most likely when they have children of their own) they will have a resource to go and see who their "people" are.

So, I have debated on how I want to document our family tree. I dont think its significant enough to just show a picture of the tree a bunch of names and birth/death dates. That doesn't do it justice. So I am going to attempt to tell the story of some of my family member's with the information I have. And I am going to put it here in this blog as a holding place for my blurb book, also so that I can share with the rest of my family as I learn.

I think I need to make this blog private though. Seems like all the cool kids are doing it (*cough* Aimee and Lindsay *cough*) and since I will be listing family names, places, etc. I think its time I go private.

Few! that is a mouthful! More to come!