Today I had to talk in church. Definitely not my favorite thing to do, but I am happy now that it is done. We had a lesson about Nauvoo today and it made me want to search out some of my family history. My Mom had always told me that I had a pioneer heritage, but I had no idea how much of a pioneer heritage I really had. I went onto lds.org and put in my great grandmothers name. Well I guess my cousin is a family history nut, so I was able to track my family back to the 1400s. CRAZY! I found out a couple super cool things as I went through all the names. A bunch of my family followed Joseph Smith from NY all the way to far west. I found a bunch of baptisms within the first few years of the church's organization. I found a sealing performed in the endowment building in Nauvoo ( what they used before the temple was built there). It absolutely blows my mind to think of who could have administered that sealing to them. I also found out that 2 of my ancestors.. from different families came over on the Mayflower , signed the mayflower compact, and were present at the First Thanksgiving. One of them was George Soules.. who was actually the teacher of William Bradford's children in England. William Bradford was the first governor of Plymouth, MA.
SO cool. Genealogy is cool stuff. Seriously blew my mind to read these things. This was a very cool weekend.
