The Guadalajara Reporter

Knowing your heritage

Fueled by an explosion of online resources and several popular television shows, family history research is now outpacing quilting and gardening as the favorite hobby of Americans and Canadians.

People begin to explore their ancestry for many reasons, but for Fran Murphy, secretary of the Lakeside Genealogy Forum, it was the “sense of heritage” that first motivated her.

“When I started I didn’t even know that my father’s father had any brothers and sisters. It  just opened a whole world to me that I never knew existed,” said Murphy, who has traced one line of her family back to 13th century England.

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