FAMILY : It's history, lineage, and ancestry roots

My dad was an avid Family Tree researcher (as far as one of his hobby and interests). I guess I caught an interest in it pretty early on in life. As his illness weakened him more and more every day; he was unable to keep up with it like he used to. Having been the only one of his children that ever showed an interest in tracing our Family Tree; he asked if I would continue on with it after he passes on. Right then, I inherited his love of Family research. He passed away February 10' 2013. My birthday was a couple months later. My mom got me a subscription to: . I have been digging and searching. I have truly become fascinated with this art of researching family history. I have learned many of the ins and outs of it (like cross referencing and/or triple referencing). I have begun the pain-staking process of collecting and gathering memories from school work and grades to artwork and awards as well as pictures to post. I have found pictures of many relatives of the 1800's or earlier. What I truly love about this is, that its educational value is limitless. For one, you can look at it as history, sure! It is. These people aren't just the well known pieces of history that makes it into the school books; these people are FAMILY!! These people are "part of you" . THEIR story is sooo much more interesting BECAUSE it's so "normal" or "average". Regular people like you and me that made up the rest of THEIR world and helped to keep it runing smooth. To learn what they looked like through pictures or about their personalities through hand written recorded documents/scanned papers. So That is one of the sites I use frequently while working on my promise to my Dad. This morning I woke up and decided to try and make a dent in some more of the document scanning of my family. (It dawned on me in my research that, while I am researchin other family members', my family history needs to be recorded for future family members to be able to look me up and research.Evenings work better for me (as far as an activity like that). I don't have that nagging "things to do things to do" chant going off in my head. Ancestry.com is a RELAXING activity for me. I find it intriguing and educational. My daddy always said "Learn all you can when you can" . He always told us kids. Learn something new everyday so to Learn all you can when you can. So, This weekend I will putting some more hours on my Family History at Ancestry.com.