The weekly prompt from @AmyJohnsonCrow and #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks is "Curious". I don't think you get into family history research without being curious!
I want to know so much about my Czech Moravian ancestors - what was their life like?
Why did they decide to come across an ocean to America?
What did they hope to find, do, experience here?
What were their dreams, hopes, and goals?
Did they make their dreams come true?
I'd love to see where they lived one day, as it is likely that the area is not changed very much due to communism. I would love to see the cemeteries, churches, schools they went to. I would especially love to find distant cousins who may still live there!
I wonder if they ever thought of their descendants - what we would be like?
If we would forget the language (we have)?
If we would continue traditions (we have not)?
I wonder what they would tell us to do, things that would help us, continue our Czech-ness, our Moravian-ness?
Curiosity keeps me digging for more roots.
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