Imagine
Imagining is a great way to prepare
yourself for seeing what you have not seen before. Please try a couple of these
suggestions.
Consider this fact: To complete a 20-generation ancestor chart
(back to about the time of Christopher Columbus’ father) for anyone requires
filling in just over one million boxes with the names of people you would call
grandmother or grandfather, preceded by some number of “greats”.
Then imagine, what are the odds that some of the people on
your chart will also appear on your spouse’s chart?
Scroll slowly through the very wide ranging Family Forest® bibliography
and then try to imagine three things.
- How
many great ancestral history nuggets might be hidden in those books?
- How
many of your own ancestors (people you would call grandmother or
grandfather, preceded by some number of “greats”) might be waiting for you
to find them within this collection?
- What
if a curious and conscientious person of reasonable intelligence spends
tens of thousands of hours at a computer digitally indexing (in
lineage-linked format) the people’s life clues in those books and
periodicals, so you can explore thousands of years of recorded ancestral
history visually through charts configured to your preferences?
