Family Times and Ties
June 19, 2009
I just returned late Monday night from a wonderful trip to Rome, Georgia. I met my boyfriend’s parents and actually got to see how a true family is. It kind of reminded me that family ties go further then current family. I posted the song because it reminds of where most of the blood in my family lays.
What I mean by this is that I can trace my grandmother’s families back 400 years. They have been in America since near the beginning. I can trace my father’s line to 1832, but no further. I do not even want to trace my mother’s family. That would be like trying to look at a tree with a great big trunk and very puny little limbs.
Of my descent, I am Scottish, Irish, French and German from my father’s side, and what I can gather about my mother’s side is Scottish, Irish and Choctaw Indian. So imagine a fiery, cold temper with the love for the storytelling. That would be me.
About my trip to Georgia, I had found out that my boyfriend’s father’s side had settled in Georgia with a good many generations. My family was in surrounding counties up until the mid 1960′s when they migrated to California and stayed there. All of my family in Georgia is distant and have married into other families. It was kind of creepy to find out that I may be very distantly kin to my boyfriend through marriage. But if thought in the grand scheme of things, the United States population is kin to each other in some way or another.
