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WhAt?!?

This is my mind.
Any questions?
There are so many questions, I don't know where to start.
Then again, the truth of the matter is I don't know what to think. It's so mind-boggling I have no idea what to think--or even how to at this point.
I cannot even begin to tell you how surprised I am (but not).
What I've discovered fills in a lot of answers to missing parts in my life and unanswered questions--for things that are down deep inside of me. It helps explains things.
I need some time to try to process what has happened and what I've discovered.
Who would ever have thought doing genealogy would bewilder, astonish, surprise, dumbfound, mind-boggle, etc--like this? Would you have thought?
I am surprised. I think that's fair enough to say.
Now, stay tuned.
Throughout the day today--and for the next week, I will really dive into this and will try to come up with some resemblance of ordered thought to help explain to you what I've discovered and what it means to me and my life.
I know this for much for sure: My life has just done a 180.
I also know this: It shouldn't.
But, it has.
How could it not? You'll see what I mean once you hear my story.

Historic Family Members, My Roots, and What I Can Learn

Historic Family Members, My Roots, and What I Can Learn

HISTORIC FAMILY MEMBERS
I do have several other historic family members from World and American or U.S. History. If I were to mention their names, you would know them. Some, I am a direct descendant. Some I am an indirect one.
Here are just a couple: Nero, Charlemagne, President Benjamin Harrison, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Plantagenet Family, the Tudors, etc.
There are a great deal more. I've had the good and bad in my family. Look at Nero, for instance. He fiddled as Rome burned. Then, there's the positive stories. I've also had several in the American Revolutionary War, including a father and his twelve sons. I've had brothers who fought in the Civil War on the side of the North and of the South. My family has been part of ever war the United States has had.

HOW FAR DO MY ROOTS EXTEND?
I can trace my family back as far as 23 BC--and maybe earlier.

THIS IS WHY I CAN LEARN A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HISTORY FROM MY FAMILY
My family has been there, done that, you might say. Thus, this is why I want to do a study of American and World History, as I learn about my family, and journal about all of this. I want to write a memoir that describes the process and share it with my living family and have it for future generations. But, I also want to share it with the world. I have a unique corner in history and want to share it.
This is my story of how I learned about history, through my family tree, and how this information transforms me, my life, and my family today and tomorrow.