Coming from a predominantly inactive LDS family, it had always been an aspiration of mine to learn how to research and organize my family history for the specific reason of taking names of my ancestors to the temple. When I was registering for my winter classes at Brigham Young University, I saw that a class entitled Family History and Genealogy was available. Thinking that this would be a great help in my quest for how to go about submitting names, I immediately signed up.
Now I'm here, at the creation of a new blog dedicated to my family history and all my research connected to it. But how did I get here? It all began in my Family History class when we were assigned to choose a family from our ancestry to research and gather information about. After quite a bit of consideration, I decided to begin with my great-grandfather, Alexander Ramley Reed Hamilton.
There are various reasons as to why I chose to begin with Alex. Within my very limited knowledge of my family history, I knew that Alex's family was not LDS. I thought this would give me a better shot at finding names that had not made their way to the temple. However, as I began my research, the names I found evolved into something much more. The names actually became people, and I felt myself connecting on a deeper level than I had ever expected.
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