Monday, August 24, 2009

I'm related to Adam (by marriage)

Nate and I were looking around on new.familysearch.org last night. We like to click on a family member's name and then click on that person's parents and that persons parents and that persons parents until there is no more information on that particular family line, just to see how far back we can go. We started with Nate's grandpa, Albert Bowler, and clicked his father, then his father's father and so on. While we were clicking, and getting back into the 1400s, we talked about how we're sure someone somewhere has traced their roots to Adam. The father's fathers kept on coming and soon we were seeing like 300 AD. The names had already changed from Old English to Jewish names and we were shocked that this family line had made it through the medieval times, indicating royalty because records of peasants were not kept during that time. The word "King" appeared in front of several of the names. Suddenly we saw Joseph of Arimathea, born 80 BC. He is the one who donated his own tomb for the burial of Jesus Christ. We kept on clicking, past Noah, right on through, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham and then finally, Adam (first man) and Eve (first woman). That's exactly how their names are listed.


We couldn't click any more past that.



A self portrait from several months ago. Lucy made me add the crown. Fitting I'd say.

2 comments:

  1. That's soooo cool! Sometimes I feel guilty when I see how much geneology has been done in my family line and it wasn't done by ME. Love the portait.

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  2. wow, that is really amazing. i bet not many people can say that. so cool!

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