Genealogy in the comics!

Some of you would know that I have Genealogy (Family History) as one of my hobbies. Erika, my 11 year old daughter, has also taken a fair interest in my research as well. A fellow genealogist made note of the above "For Better or Worse" comic strip yesterday. I enjoyed reading it because it reminded me of the enjoyment that Erika and I get out of doing genealogy together. :-)

Like the family in the comic strip, I find that far too often there is more than we can fit in a day. It is really encouraging to have something that Erika joins in with me, and says, "That's OK, Daddy. I've got time."

Kinship Project

I just finished a kinship project for my Anthropology class. I was to chart my family back at least to my great granparents. Since genealogy is a hobby of mine, it wasn't so much work to come up with the data to work with. The hard part was working within the space constraints that I was allowed. I had to fit the whole chart on a single 81/2 X 11 sheet of paper.

Now...for the clincher. I had never counted the number of my first cousins before. When I finished the chart, I counted the cousins and came up with 53! That is just my 1st Cousins! No wonder it was so hard to fit them all on the page.

Is 53 cousins a lot of cousins? How many do you have?