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22 July 2011
Unattached
I'm sorry McCurley family, but I can't get myself excited about researching you. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I just feel somewhat unattached to your branch of the family. Maybe it's that you last appear in my family in a girl born in 1859? Maybe you just seem too far removed from me? But you are my Great-Great-Great Grandmother's line - and I don't feel that disconnect with other 3x-Great Grandmothers. It's not that you're off in some random location - you're in Elbert County, Georgia, home to almost a quarter of my recent ancestors. It's not even that your records are difficult to find - I haven't even finished searching for your "easy" census records. It isn't that you're not exciting - you served in the civil war. So what is it about you, McCurley family, that leaves me feeling so unattached?
Now you have me wondering if there is anyone, anyone at all, that I am unattached to....
ReplyDeleteI have this same problem with a few of my lines and I'm not sure why. I guess we just feel a connection with certain ancestors and not others. :)
ReplyDeleteI have very nearly convinced myself that my feelings of disassiciation with certain ancestors means that I must not be related to them through blood...I know that's probably not true, though...
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