Intro for 2025 edition of 52 ancestors in 52 weeks

2025!!!  Here we go. Its a brand new year, and I am optimistic that I will be more consistent for this year's blog. It might not be one a week, but hopefully at least one per month.

I hope you enjoy this 2025 blog. I am still learning, but am hopeful that these posts will be something that will pique your interest in your ancestors, or at least a couple of them. 

And as always, remember that your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles will not be around forever to ask them questions and to tell stories about their lives. So I encourage you to simply ask them a question about something, and listen to the stories that unfold. 

What would be some good questions to ask them? Here are a few suggestions when you are sitting at the supper table, or riding in a car, or pretty much anytime. 

        Where did you live when you were my age?

        What was your house or apartment like?

        Who lived there with you?

        Who was your favorite teacher(s) in high school or elementary school? And why?

        Where did you first meet your husband or wife?

        What was your first job you got paid for? How much did you earn?

        Did you ever go out to a restaurant as a family to eat?

        What was your favorite food when you were young?

        What did your dad and, or mom do for a living?

        Did you ever know your grandparents? If so, which ones? What were they like? When did you get to see them?

        Did you play any sports when you were young?

I'm sure you can think of more questions, but you get the idea. Try this sometime - I bet you will be fascinated by the answers, and how that one question will get them talking about all sorts of things they remember.