Family History Project: Fin

(Feb. 23. 2009)

So I've made the final cuts on interviews and photos. I'm still not sure if I'll include any "documentation," or any of the actual certificates I found on Ancestry.com. Since I've decided finally to shift my focus permanently on mostly my living relatives who have impacted me the most, like Busia and my mother, and only touching briefly on those before me, there isn't much room for those types of documents when I have so many pictures. And I don't want the scrapbook to look cluttered, so I've had to cut out a lot more information than I wanted to.

Which makes me nervous, still. I think I'm just naturally nervous about this project. Now that I'm cutting information out, what will this do to my grade? And I just feel silly for spending so much time on Ancestry.com looking stuff up I probably won't even use. I think that, but then I remember my original idea for the project: to learn more about my Polish, deceased ancestors. Even though they may not be in the final project as much as I'd like, I know the stories now. I know which itty-bitty villages my great-grandparents grew up in when they were living in Poland. I know what church they went to, I know my great grandfather was a tailor, and my great-grandmother married her first husband's brother. I know my grandfather's family has been in the states for hundreds of years, and if I had spent more time with that, could possibly even find his ancestors amoung the settlers.

I've learned so much about my family, that the grade I receive for my scrapbook matters minutely. And I have a great start to investigating more, espeically over the summer when I have more time and less classes to distract me.