MEETING LOTS OF PEOPLE

Working in Lands and Records, I meet a lot of people.  It has been the most amazing opportunity for me and I literally have loved every single day that I get to be there.  I get excited when people are able to find relatives and read about them.  I am excited when I research and find new information to add to their files. I think I have always been excited about Genealogy.  From the first attempts Daddy and I have made, to now, I have loved every second and feel a little like NCIS, looking for clues.  When Daddy and I first started trying to find people, it was quite a process.  We would hunt and hunt for information, get a clue and then write a letter.  It would take a month and then come back with the response that they couldn’t find anything.  Then we would start over again.  Daddy didn’t even know the name of his grandfather.  That was a trip in the car to Humboldt County in Kansas and finding a newspaper article with his name it in.  I was hooked from that moment on.  Now the computer and all of the people that have the “Spirit of Elijah,” are making things much easier.  I have been to the Family History Center here several times, I am a subscriber of Ancestry.com, and I am hooked.  I have found some exciting links to my family line.  I truly think that the Lord had the computer invented for many wonderful reasons, one of them being genealogy.  It makes the search so much faster, and more user friendly.  When I go home, genealogy will be one of my major projects.  I literally feel connected to the names that I find.  One of the most interesting discoveries has been centered around my name.  My mother thought that she made up my name.  How many Verlindas’ do you know?  I have never heard of another one.  So going back in my lines on my mother’s and my father’s lines, around the early 1800’s, there are Verlindas’ on each side!!!! Who knew!!! I feel as if I have family who are waiting for me!!

So I will be anxiously engaged in reuniting my family and seeing that the work has been done for them.  What a reunion it will be.

Back to working in Land and Records, last week a gentleman was in and we were talking.  This man is the one who was responsible for building the Nauvoo Temple. I had to have a picture.  So many famous people here.