This is Joy’s daughter, Kelsey, doing a guest blog for Family History Friday!
Ever since I was little, my mom has been
in love
with doing family history.
She has always taught us to have a love
for the people who came before us, and
paved the way for us to have the lives we do now.
We have been on a couple trips to places where our ancestors are from. We took a trip in 1999 to the East coast, including Dedham, Massachusetts, where our ancestors, the Fairbanks, built their house in 1637, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, where our ancestors who came across on the Mayflower landed. It was so fun to see how and where they lived when they came to America, and to see all the struggles they went through to make life better for us.
Whenever we go on long trips in the car, she asks us questions about our ancestors to see if we know who she is talking about. It is really cool to know things about them, because then they are real. They aren’t just names on a piece of paper. They really lived and experienced things, just like we do. I really do appreciate the things she does to find out who they are, and to help us know them as well.
I would recommend that you do your family history, and share what you learn with your kids, so that they can enjoy it too.
