Hey all, it's me, Amber. I just wanted to speak some of my thoughts lately around ancestry, my ancestry, my recent

explorations share just some stories and things that have been happening, I think, as both a way for me to

document what's going on when I have a little time to actually write things out

and to coherent pieces of blogging or of journaling like I used to have and

just speaking is easier but also as perhaps hopefully some sort of inspiration for

people who maybe aren't sure what like ancestry research or connection can look like and you know just yeah just to talk about

what it's looking like for me lately so I've really

been connecting with my dad's ancestors and of course I've talked about them quite a bit on the show if you've listened before, at least the rights, those family members, my dad's moms, people. But on both sides of his family, my dad's people are from the American South, like deep, going back for so many generations.

So, you know, each generation you go back

the amount of ancestors you have doubles.

So it's an exponential growth and it pretty quickly gets to be a lot lot lot lot lot of people and it's amazing the ones I've been able to find

they're just in America like 1700s. 1600. They're still in America. It takes me a long time to trace them back to England, Ireland, Scotland, if at all, you know, in most of those lines of course the

trail runs out.

The paper trail is not there when it comes to the migration over the Atlantic.

And you know, one thing I've noticed over the years of being interested in ancestry,

it's been about eight years now since 2010 that I really got into it is that my pool

towards different family threads, family stories, places of origin, myths, you know, food, plants from that area.

It shifts like sometimes I'll get really into my French ancestry which is my pure maternal line and sometimes

I'll get really into the southern ancestry which is going to lead me back to British Isles and the Celtic peoples.

And it's just, you know, I always like to follow where my interest is taking me.

And they're often overlapping too. like all I need to do is start

thinking about a particular grandparent or story or just open ancestry.com and

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