The Past...

One of these days I will have to sit down and explain the complex system that is my in-laws. Suffice it to say that Days of our Lives, could be pulling out story lines out of my in-laws for another couple of decades. I wish I was exaggerating.

Anyway since I'm on the topic of family. My in-laws recently invited me to join a website that is one half social network and one half genealogy with a pinch of 'Huh?' thrown in for good measure. The website is www.genoom.com and I've been goofing around with it for a day or so. It's really kinda cool. My Dad was/and is a big genealogy freek. He has traced at least 4 lines back to Adam -you think I'm kidding but I'm not-. Anyway as it turns out this little website is a lot more fun and visual than that old PAF program. I used the PAF program but what PAF really needed was something like Facebook were you just get the itching to add to it, and this program seems to have that kind of feel to it. My only complaint so far is that it doesn't have a Facebook add-on.

So I guess in a way I am finally doing a little more with my Family History, looks like I am due some blessings or at least some forgiveness. I would like the forgiveness.

Every time I start looking into my family history I am always surprised with how little I know about the family on my Dad's side. Every little once and a while someone lets something out at is always surprises me. The fact of the matter is that my Dad really didn't like his family, I could go into it but it would take me as long or longer to explain my in-laws. Since my Dad doesn't like his family he's been very, very reluctant to expound on it. I think I've heard him mention that he will take his secrets to the grave. Last year when my aunt put together a book on the subject of the family he refused to have anything to do with it. He said he glaceed though the book and stated the it doesn't tell the story of my Dad or my grandfather right. I told him to correct it so that at least in the copy I have it tells the right story, but he refuses. As I go though this book I am surprised to find cousins that I never knew I had. Sometimes I feel like I am trampling on a history that my father would rather I not look into until he's passed on, but it is my past too.

Well, at least maybe I'll get some family history done.