The Tradition Of Genealogy

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My family has a tradition of playing softball. My dad played my mom played my great grandpa played and my grandma play. And my mom usually says how about them apples a lot. Genealogy is what family members were before you and how you are connected to others like my grandpa was before my generation and has more knowledge. Genealogy is important because this what was before me. To begin with, my family is from Iowa and we always lived in Iowa. Not a rich family but not a poor one.
To continue, genealogy is what was before us. For example, like just say a king was related to me by some way that would be surprising but some people do. Like what will come before us and will come after us it’s just a huge cycle. As a result everyone dies

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