I was reading through some of my blog post, and found this treasure; " Ancestor Approved Award from Mavis of Conversations With My Ancestors.  I was truly surprised, and most humbled by it. There are so many recipients of this award already, so you may be getting this again.  Mavis, thanks for thinking of me, and sending this award my way.

The rules of this award specify to list ten things I've learned about my ancestors that have surprised, humbled, or enlightened me.  As the recipient I will pass the award to ten other genealogy bloggers that are doing their ancestors proud.

Surprised:

• Making my first live connection with my Baylor lineage  - the foundation for building my family tree.

• Humble and excited to meet my “Baylor” relatives – an everlasting bond that we wish would have come sooner.  They say to me, “ why didn’t we know about you before, we are never going to let you go.” 

• Finding Family – a treasure in itself.  Seeing how my family tree has blossomed from its first entry up until now.

• Having both maternal and paternal family connections at the same time.  Great breakthroughs, especially on my paternal side of the family one of the hardest to gather information on.  

• Humble and excited to receive an image of my grandmother Ruth Baylor when she was a teenager, and other siblings of hers.  (the oldest one being over 100 years old)

     Humble:

• To help plan, and speak at the first family reunion about the research process, and our family history. 

• All the contacts I’ve made from the start of my Journey researching my family history. (family members and genealogy connections) 

• To be the family storyteller – a gift passed on from my ancestors 

• Helping others connect with family –  Ms. Gladys’s daughter in-law made a promise to find out who her father was.  (abt. 20 yrs of research)  Through her connection with me, the promise was fulfilled.  My great uncle Julius was her father, someone she never knew.  New edition to the family. (She’s actually coming back to her birthplace Pt. Royal, VA next week.  First time since she left as a child.  She is now in her 80’s. 

Enlightened:

• Learning things about my great-grandmother Sarah Ann Baylor, who I never knew. She was a milliner making bonnets as told by one of my research sources. 

• I’ve been enlightened to learn that my family was one of several that lived on the property known as A.P. Hill in Caroline County, VA.  This is land the U.S. Government took over in 1941.  All families were required to relocate, as well burial grounds being moved off the property.

Passing it on to ten others.

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