My then 12 year old kept asking to go look up "where we came from" so I finally indulged him. In Jan 2023, before going back to school after Christmas 2022, I took him to the state library and archives. He found it somewhat interesting. But I was hooked. A few early successes in filling holes in the family history only solidified it. Now I have some brick walls, but that's ok. I'm still looking.

My then 12 year old kept asking to go look up "where we came from" so I finally indulged him. In Jan 2023, before going back to school after Christmas 2022, I took him to the state library and archives. He found it somewhat interesting. But I was hooked. A few early successes in filling holes in the family history only solidified it. Now I have some brick walls, but that's ok. I'm still looking.