Friday, October 4, 2013
ACE II
The new methods of doing family history research make genealogy exciting. Ten years ago, just hearing the word genealogy would put anyone under the age of 50 to sleep. Today, if you have 15 minutes to spare you can find interesting information about your ancestors. During my lunch break at work today I discovered that my great great great grandma was named Annie Christine Ekstrom. Why is this exciting you ask? Because that is my wife's name. Which makes me married to Annie Christine Ekstrom II. Like most other members (at least I think), I would never have gotten interested in family history if I thought that meant going to the library to search through some old books. Now that everything is online, we have no excuse not to do genealogy.
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While I agree that it is exciting I feel that it is still relatively unpopular in youth. It is an interesting challenge to see how we can make genealogy the next Facebook, and how we can move people from the next potential Facebook to genealogy.
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