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My mother\u2019s cousin Virginia and her husband, Pat, visited us from time to time when I was a kid. Virginia was my grandmother\u2019s oldest sister\u2019s daughter, so\u2014as we southerners were trained early to calculate\u2014my first cousin once removed.<\/p>\n

My grandparents had taken Virginia in after her mother died in the flu epidemic of 1918, a time that to me, even in the 1970s, seemed lost in the mists of the distant past. It stunned me that gray-haired Virginia had once been an 8-year-old girl whose mother died.<\/p>\n

I may have been unusual, as not many children become fascinated by genealogy, but maybe you, too, had a favorite relative in your past. Maybe you, too, have joined in the recent boom in genealogy research going on. Maybe you\u2019ve also thought about what all these family histories mean.<\/p>\n

Virginia and Pat didn\u2019t have any children, but she was a big family history buff, and sometimes would arrive with notebooks of family trees and photos of gravestones and long-dead ancestors. She explained to me how it was that she was 26 years older than my mother, her first cousin\u2014she was the eldest of an eldest, whereas my mother was the youngest of a youngest child. She also noted that childbearing happened over long years for women of previous generations.<\/p>\n

I pored over the records with her. My Grandmother Roney had done enough research to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, but it was Virginia who brought the past to life for me.<\/p>\n

By the early 1990s, however, I was busy with college, then work, then graduate school, then work. I moved from Tennessee to Minnesota, back to Tennessee, to Pennsylvania, then to Florida. Virginia died, and her husband soon followed her. I never knew what happened to her expansive notebooks that had opened the door to so many family stories, perhaps even to my own propensity to weave such stories, fictional and not, into my work as a writer.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, however, one of my graduate students, Judith Roney, who had the name by marriage, became convinced that I must be a relative of her husband, and she suggested I join Ancestry.com to try to figure out how. We never could\u2014that connection must be distant at best.<\/p>\n

However, Judith reopened Virginia\u2019s world for me again. Right away, I got both of my parents (who are now divorced) to send me the records they had. These include a book written by yet another long-gone cousin about my maternal grandfather\u2019s family history, as well as my Grandmother Roney\u2019s family trees.<\/p>\n

Madly, I began entering all this information into Ancestry and adding more via the little green leaf icons that indicate online records. Suddenly, I had more than 3,000 people in my family tree.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you have done the same. It\u2019s certainly a widespread craze\u2014I jokingly tell my husband that online genealogy is the equivalent of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) for old people. There are plenty of similarities\u2014it happens on an internet-connected computer, you meet lots of other people sort of<\/em>, there\u2019s always an interesting overlap between reality and fantasy, and it\u2019s addictive.<\/p>\n

For most of us, there\u2019s always an imaginative element about these family histories. While there are strict genealogists\u2014and I know a few of them\u2014who painstakingly construct factual accounts of their ancestors, most of us take a few facts and wonder and guess and sympathize and suppose what life was like for those who came before.<\/p>\n

Often what we find are indications of the same joys and sorrows we experience as mortal human beings today\u2014births, marriages, graduations, travels and moves, fortunes gained and lost, illnesses, deaths. Sometimes we get a glimpse of poignant differences such as the once high rate of women\u2019s and infants\u2019 deaths at birth and childbirth.<\/p>\n

One of my distant cousins\u2014with the decidedly old-fashioned name of Finis Ewen Hogard (1880-1943)\u2014lost his mother and baby sister at childbirth when he was 4, then lost his first wife and child in the same way, and the first child with his third wife at birth as well.<\/p>\n

Evidently, there were some good years, as he went on to have six more children, and there\u2019s an extant charcoal portrait of him, looking prosperous in suit and tie. Ultimately, however, he died in the poorhouse, without his family, of syphilis.<\/p>\n

Such facts beg for embroidery\u2014a detailed story of this man overcoming travail only to return to it. Genealogy offers us a scaffolding with which to support our sense of ourselves, our families, and the past. For now, I imagine Finis driven by his many youthful losses, roving the South, desperate for affection and for children, taking up with numerous women until finally one is strong enough.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one day I will reach out to his direct descendants and learn more of the real story. For that is one important difference between online genealogy and MMORPGs\u2014there are real, live relatives out there.<\/p>\n

In fact, when I first enrolled in Ancestry, I feared encountering relatives who were out to prove the WASP purity of their heritage or even a ridiculous relationship to royalty. As a white southerner whose ancestors have been in the region a long time, I expected I would find past slave-owners and current racists in my family tree.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the first relatives that I have met online and then in person are quite the contrary. It turned out that some of my unknown cousins live in Miami, and I met three of them last year. The Scotch-Irish Campbell line, shared through our great-great grandparents, however, isn\u2019t the main heritage of Geoff, Robbie, and Brett. Their grandfather married into an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and they and most of their relatives are Jewish.<\/p>\n

We marveled over drinks how strange and marvelous that\u2014for some unknown reason\u2014the Tennesseans in our ancestral line seem to have been open-minded, egalitarian, and ahead of their times.<\/p>\n

My newfound third cousins and I toasted to our good fortune in this regard. We talked about how, even part of the same generation, we are about 20 years apart in age.<\/p>\n

And I reminisced about dear Virginia and about the fragility and strength of family, history, and story.<\/p>\n

Lisa Roney is an associate professor of English in UCF\u2019s Department of English. She can be reached at <\/em>Lisa.Roney@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My mother\u2019s cousin Virginia and her husband, Pat, visited us from time to time when I was a kid. Virginia was my grandmother\u2019s oldest sister\u2019s daughter, so\u2014as we southerners were trained early to calculate\u2014my first cousin once removed. 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