User:Gchoogen

The gospel was shared with me by an insurance salesman I got a temporary job with back in 1977. It changed everything about my life for the better! I married in the Washington DC Temple and my sweetheart and I went on to have and raise ten children! I think I have always been interested in family "history". I remember as a very young girl getting out our family bible whenever grandmas or other family members visited. I would try to fill in the genealogy pages. That gave me my start when I joined the church and needed to do my 4 generation chart. I always knew many family stories because I had asked my living ancestors to tell me how they met their loved one; where they worked; where they lived; what it was like when they grew up. I've researched both sides of my family now and gotten back quite a ways. Used to be, I had an older aunt who was labouriously searching census records. It was tedious and took forever! Witht he advent of on line census records, birth records, marriage and death records, etc., I have found people that we never thought we'd find! Now I get to do help put those records out there for everyone to use and I get to arbitrate records also. I feel so priveleged to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to live during this time when I can help carry the work forward.