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There was an
interesting article posted on Live
Science
which discusses some anthropological reasons for our interest in why we do
genealogy and family history research. Why
many of us have an obsession with learning more about my ancestors!
... And it's a hobby that has extremely deep roots, with its beginnings
going all the way back to the hunter-gathers of the Neolithic Period about
11,500 years ago, just as the transition to an early agriculture society was
taking place.
But in a world where lineage no longer determines people's fates, why do
so many of us care about distant relatives who died long ago?...
Towards the end of the article, it says ...
... As the world grows more crowded and anonymous, tracing ancestry allows
people to feel more connected to others, he said. Sites like Ancestry.com allow
people to find distant cousins they never knew existed, he said.
"We live in a society of millions to hundreds to millions of
people, most of whom are strangers to us," he said. "If all of a
sudden you are a fourth cousin of someone, it creates a sense of connectedness
that you might not have had before."...
What do you think?
Why do we feel compelled to research our ancestry?
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