Exasperation And Defeat In The Genealogy J-Tem

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Exasperation and defeat played big parts in my research journey in the Genealogy J-Term. Throughout my persistent irritation from not finding any new information, I constantly felt as if I were going to give up and almost had regret choosing this class. All of this frustration I possessed evaporated when I finally started interrogating my family members and confirming the few things I knew about my ancestry. After days of discovering pages of information and scavenging the internet for censuses, I developed a vivid veneration for the people that came before me.
At first, I believed that everybody was having a hard time; then I looked over and saw that Sophia Hwang found her 15th generation great grandmother. My handed-down family pedigree

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