A few days ago, I was on the family search website for our church going through my family history. Lewis and I will find out the gender of our baby in a few days, and then the name search will commence. We've been thinking a lot about names we like already and we both thought it would be nice to pick a name that has been in either of our family lines, so it has a little bit more meaning.
I was going through my line of family history and looking at names that we might like. I was clicking on the arrows to take me back through multiple generations, clicking randomly and not paying attention to who I was clicking on and why. I just wanted to see how far back I could go.
Eventually, I got back to royalty: Kings of England, princes and princesses. None of this was news to me. I knew that there was royalty in my family line. But THEN! Look at what I found! I will let the pictures do the talking. It is amazing to see who I found in my family line (sorry the pictures are so small. Just click on them, and they will enlarge so you can see).
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| Yes, that is Caesar Augustus, the Emporer of Rome |
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| Joseph - Father of Jesus |
And lastly!
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| Mary, the mother of Christ |
You can imagine the surprise that I had. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I am related to Mary, the mother of Christ and Joseph, his earthly father. They are in my family line. What a shock this was. I still can't get over it.
This is the fun thing about genealogy! I love looking back at all of these fun things and I'm sure our ancestors love being acknowledged.
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