Everyone has different motivations to start their family search; the birth of a child, the death of a parent.
My search started on a dare. I was meeting my future in-laws and having the classic “get to know you” discussions. How many siblings do you have? Where did your parents grow up? How BIG is your family?
Both of my parents come from large families. I know there are a lot of people that have larger families than mine, but to my future in-laws (extremely nice people btw) the stories of my parents and grandparents from the same small town in Puerto Rico and I being a Native New Yorker was exotic to them.
My father was the third youngest of 12 children, my mother was number 11 of 15.
Do you know all your aunts and uncles? Well, not the ones that died in childhood or an uncle that died at 21 in 1940s, but of course! But you can’t know all your first cousins? I know all my first cousins and share great memories with all but 2.
So, how many first cousins do you have? 61.
This discussion happened in 1989. This sparked my thirst for genealogy to share my family stories to the future generations for my nieces, nephews and the children of my 61 first cousins.
What sparked your looking?
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