Thursday, August 1, 2013

"Who do you think you are"

This show is sponsored by ancestry.com

You can imagine how poignant this show would be for adoptees who sometimes never get to meet even their biological parents.

Of course I didn't meet mine until I turned 26.

So, a cousin on my father's side sent me my family tree for the jewish side of me.  But my birthmother (I figured out) who has completed "our" family tree search, has not shared any of the information with me.  She told the Baltimore sun that she is a geneology buff but will not tell me what she's learned.  I do know that I'm a daughter of the American REvolution and saw what quick glimpse of the relative that fought in the revolutionary war (civil?)

So, I probably enjoyed watching Trisha's search a little more then Christina Applegate.  I can relate to what trisha said about "knowing that she is strong and wondering more details about her likely strong relatives.  Incredible to see what it was like to be a prisoner of war.

The tears just streamed down my face when Applegate and her father go to Lavina Shaw's grave.  wow!  And so sweet of Cristina to tell her father how good of a job he did despite his pain

I think the more we know about our ancestry the more motivating it would be to keep carrying on.

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