There are many reasons to study your genealogy! Whether you are simply curious about your ancestors, want to solve a family mystery, or have a legal reason – there are many advantages of having access to your genealogy.
Solve a Family Mystery
You may have already done some family research but keep coming up empty on certain ancestors, or there is an old family story everyone talks about but no one can verify. Genealogy helps answer those questions as well as find surprisingly interesting facts that perhaps no one knew!
Learn about History
Learning about your ancestors will also teach you about history in general. You can learn about different places in time, human migration, occupations, traditions, cultures, etc. Genealogy helps you learn about history and how your ancestors fit in it!
Sense of Identity and Family Connection
Discovering your family’s history can help give yourself a sense of identity. You can learn where your ancestors came from, what traditions they practiced, what jobs they performed, etc., which can give you a sense of where you came from and who you are individually. This can also help bring a tighter connection both with family from the past and present, as well as passing along to future family.
Solve Legal Disputes
Sometimes genealogy is needed to resolve legal disputes, such as determining rightful heirs to property. With the recent surge in DNA-based ancestry, forensic genealogy is also helping solve cold cases. In many ways, a genealogist is like a private detective.
Contact Anchored Ancestry today to begin the journey to your genealogy!
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