I actually won’t be able to make it to this event because I unfortunately have to work, so instead I thought I would do my own research on the topic because I know absolutely nothing about it and it sounded interesting. I thought I might start out with the definition I found of Genealogy. Genealogy is “the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.” According to Wikipedia.org.
So since I am not able to go to this event I thought I might respond to the title. I’m just going to talk and guess what they will be talking about.
How do people know exactly who their ancestors are? By word of mouth? People or parents telling them that they are related to so and so. That their great great great great grandfather was this guy in this book. Who is to say that my great grandfather times 50 wasn’t the President of the United States. Its all based on people keeping track of the right people and other people not lying about it. What about adoption. Are you supposed to pick up your new adopted families family tree or are you supposed to keep your biological one. And what if you don’t know about your biological history, are you supposed to just start a new one with you? This is, in my opinion, just one big grey area to look into.
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