Name trees

The hard work (see: tedious) of family history has never appealed to me. Luckily my mother has not ever shared this aversion to microfiche searches, hours of hunting through records, traipsing off to cemeteries, and all the other things involved in genealogy.

I enjoy hearing stories, reading names and places and imagining what people's lives were like. Basically... I like all the fun things without the work. That's a fail for me.

Not everyone is as lame as me though, thankfully, and we can all benefit from the connection family history gives us to our ancestors.

"I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond.

And their eyes were my eyes."

- Richard Llewellyn

Genealogy isn't just about what has gone before us, but about what is to come. I think it would be great to be familiar with the names at least of our great and grand fathers and mothers. So I did this.

You don't get to choose your family, or rather... you only get to choose one member of your family.
I chose Kyle. 


This is our family tree. 

I might draw leaves on it, but we'll see. I think I like it like this, all scruffy with my hand writing and Gabriel's little plum thumb print (I took it while he was sleeping and he managed to rub ink all over his face... )


Templates for this and other tree designs will be available from the Lady Proteus etsy store when it opens in October. Mine's going in a frame.