Comments on: Family Reaction to Genealogy

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By: Concetta

Concetta — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:25:50 +0000

I wanted to comment on this yesterday – sorry for the delay!

I have most of my family here:
The ones who don’t want to do the research personally, but love to hear about the results
The ones who will do a little of the research, but not as addicted to it as you are

A few here:
The ones who will give you the information you ask, but from that point have no desire to learn more

Just one or two here:
The ones who have no desire to talk about or learn the family history for their own reasons

And none here:
The spouse who resents the time spent on genealogy and not on them

Well, maybe a little. The spouse likes motorcycles a lot though – so we split our vices LOL.

I think most people have at least one family member who’s hooked, but most lie in the “that’s interesting, dear” category when it comes to it. Plus, we have to remember that the last couple generations have been ones of tremendous disclosure – people didn’t always share their pasts like they do now. I find its always hardest to get the oldest people interested unless they see it as giving value to their life, not just photographing and copying information about dead people.

What I have found to be the best tactic with even the most die-hard “genealogy is boring” crowd who usually hate even talking about it at all is to break out the family pictures. People talk and talk about pictures and its not “genealogy” – its “nostalgia” or “memories” or “background on the photo”. Its all about our frame of mind when we work with our family.

Sorry for being so long winded! Your blog hit on a spot that most genealogists will experience more than once

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:11:55 +0000

I agree when they are adults. I find it very odd when people aren’t interested at all in their own family but children are different. I can’t stop now.

By: Caroline Pointer

Caroline Pointer — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:02:39 +0000

My name is Caroline and I’m a genealogy addict! This post is so true. Personally, I don’t see how someone doesn’t want to know all the juicy details of an ancestor’s life…Oh well. You’re right, though, these are the same people who will be calling later and I’ll be ready to tell the family stories…

Caroline

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:57:04 +0000

To be honest, I wasn’t really that interested when my Dad first started researching. I thought what he found was good but never wanted to know more. He got back to the 1500s (before anything was online) when he worked nights a security guard. Now I am older, have my own life and family I love it, and talk to him about it alot. I also run my own research service – just can’t get enough of it!! So my advice is, never give up. You just never know the impact of what you are doing.

By: stephv73

stephv73 — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:01:06 +0000

Oh, yes, I'm very familiar with these types of relatives! Most of mine fall under the category of "love to hear about it, and will gladly take copies of what you've researched to save for our own children and grandchildren, but can't be bothered to do any research ourselves." I don't mind sharing my family research, obviously, but I'm the only one in my family who seems to take an active interest in genealogy. Several other relatives seem indifferent to it most of the time, but once in a while will ask me a question about a particular ancestor or ancestors. I only have one branch of the family who just won't talk about anything--my paternal grandfather's side of the family, who are of Irish ancestry, just don't seem to want to discuss family history at all, and some of them actually get upset if they're asked anything. So, I'm going it alone on the research for that particular family branch! Fortunately, my husband loves genealogy, so we do it together. That helps. Stephanie at the Irish Genealogical Research blog