Profile #866 or How Many Angles do you Need?

Posted by Wonder

September 12, 2009

Haven’t updated the blog since the dog died.

Thought I’d share my new passion in dog-less hunting with you. I’m not going tramping through South Dakota’s cornfields and sloughs this year. No siree! I’m going to stay at home nice and warm in front of my computer and dig up bones of dead relatives on the Internet.

O.K. so I’m joking about the dog. He never lived, but I am doing a little genealogical research online. Just updated my profile at Ancestry.com. Whadda ya think?

For those of you who are link lazy, the bottom line is: “Therein lies the problem with genealogical research, a lot of what people write down in public records is not indeed a fact.”. My mother and grandmother were not necessarily Native American even though it says so on their South Dakota marriage licenses to Natives. Either that, or the census taker was lying. Who ya gonna believe; all the people who’ve asked me if I have Native heritage from my physical appearance or my grandma who told me I was “a little white girl, now act like it” perhaps too many times?

No, seriously. This shit makes my head hurt but I found an ancient family photograph album and how else am I going to figure out who all these people are? I’ve already managed to hook into another person’s research in one line of the family and taken a giant leap back in time. Kinda fun, in a sedate sort of way.

Oh, yeah, back to my point. This new profile at the genealogical site makes about my 800th online profile. Will all these millions of “public profiles” solve the public record lies problem or will it just add to it immensely?

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