Thursday, November 17, 2005
Finding your roots
A Curiosity Can Turn Into an Obsession
One day as my wife and I were shopping at our local warehouse store, I became intrigued by the then latest version of Family Tree Maker, version 7. On a lark, I bought it.
I started entering family data from memory. I interviewed my wife and her mother for her side. Then I went to my dad. By this time, I had about 400 names. He was immediately fascinated. He sat with me and began to help me add more names. I met with him a couple of times to add more and more data.
One day after work I stopped by his house to visit. He told me that he had bought a laptop from a home shopping channel. He wanted to take over the family tree project. That was about 6 years and 2 laptops ago. He now has over 80,000 names in his tree.
He has just ordered Family Tree Maker 2006 and can hardly wait.
Check it out now.
One day as my wife and I were shopping at our local warehouse store, I became intrigued by the then latest version of Family Tree Maker, version 7. On a lark, I bought it.
I started entering family data from memory. I interviewed my wife and her mother for her side. Then I went to my dad. By this time, I had about 400 names. He was immediately fascinated. He sat with me and began to help me add more names. I met with him a couple of times to add more and more data.
One day after work I stopped by his house to visit. He told me that he had bought a laptop from a home shopping channel. He wanted to take over the family tree project. That was about 6 years and 2 laptops ago. He now has over 80,000 names in his tree.
He has just ordered Family Tree Maker 2006 and can hardly wait.
Check it out now.
