Family Trees

One of Mom’s greatest passions before she died was researching the Family Tree.  She put a lot of work into this research and generated one large five inch binder for each of her children.  Packed full of birth and death certificates and related details going back until the 1600s.  For the rest of our family, Mom put all the details into a CD ROM.  One of my uncles picked up Mom’s project after she passed on, determined to complete it. 

The most interesting thing you learn from reading about how relatives died for two or three generations.  Is how riddled with Diabetes our family has been.  Most of the deaths of my grandparents, great-grandparents was related to diabetes (untreated).  I say untreated because it wasn’t until in recent years that the health community has taken a pro-active stance in diagnosing and treating diabetes.  My relatives that died of diabetes related deaths were never diagnosed as being diabetics. 

There is type one diabetes and type two diabetes; Type three diabetes is now called Alzheimer’s.  Sad, very, very sad.

In my humble opinion, the world, the science community as we know, has discovered only the tip of the ice berg where diabetes is concerned.  The treatment has much to be desired. 

Another little known fact, did you know that often when people have the upper part of their colons removed – their diabetes disappears completely??  Doctors discovered this by accident. 

Any way, back to the family tree.  Mom discovered all kinds of interesting details when she researched the family tree.  She learned that we’re related to Daniel Boone and Mark Twain.  My father’s mother’s family also settled Montgomery, Alabama. 

The information about Montgomery Alabama brings up all kinds of questions.

Before we knew this fact we assumed that everyone in the family had fought on the northern side.  But now we knew that we fought on both sides of the civil war. 

Anyway, as you can see, a lot of interesting details can be learned about your family by researching the Family Tree.