Be_ a_ Seeker

I read the SDA Church website that I gave you about the Russian settlers that built the Yale SDA church, and it was good. It wasn’t as compete as the handwritten and signed paper that I read years ago from the original records of the church and from what I remember, and it was years ago, the Slavic immigrants were looking for a religion to unite themselves. They were from various religions and traditions and looking to find “the American way” to prosper them and ensure that their children prospered in America.

They liked the clean life style and honest ways that the Seventh-day Adventist religion encouraged and I give great kudos to the sacrifice that my father, mother and grandparents and indeed the whole community made for me. Thank-you.! The most important thing to me was that they taught me to be a seeker. A seeker for truth. My father’s voice still rings in my mind. “Never forget.” He said, “I am just an ignorant man, who only knows how to work…you go and learn and learn. There is much to learn. Never stop learning and seeking.” So, I’ve never stopped seeking. As an adult, I converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of my seeking nature. And within the church, I learned to be a researcher. It fit my inquisitive nature of seeking. Now researching my family names and stories has become a passion for me.

One of the things I have been religiously (no pun intended) seeking is to put together my family tree. I love my family. I have the best, the brightest, most wonderful family. I love My husband, My children, My grandchildren and My extended family members. http://cmewander.blogspot.com/2009/08/823-saturday-was-great-day.html

Because of the LDS Church I have learned ways to organize myself and my research. I’ve learned more about living than I can possibly write about here, so what I would like to do is give you a website if you are interested in doing your family research. Its http://Familysearch .org and if you want to find a family research center near you, you click on the link at the top of the page that reads FamilySearch centers. The LDS Church has the most complete genealogy records of any organization in the world.