How I got bit by the genealogy bug....
It was an innocent request that has taken up quite a bit of my free time and money. When I became pregnant for the first time I was so excited, the doctor not so much. He decided to send me to a geneticist. Why? Marfan Syndrome ran in my family, as did diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer. The assignment from the geneticist - family pedigree, family medical history and any death certificates I could locate for members of my family that had passed. The request for the information had me speaking to relatives, requesting death certificates, ans searching for answers. Even after the geneticist had all the information he needed - I still needed more. The search has lead me to many interesting characters. A great great grandmother that married a already married man, a great great uncle struck down my lightening, a great grandmother that refused to marry after becoming pregnant, a grandfather's whose...