The Beginning of the Journey

Where to start? I guess at the beginning. I started researching my family tree about 4 years ago when I was recovering from surgery and had to try to figure out what to do with myself while I couldn't work for 4 months. I was chatting with my husband one evening while sitting in front of my computer and I told him that if I did a google search on my last name (Morenberg) everyone that came up would probably be related to me. Odd the things you think of to keep yourself busy when you're bored. I was right, though -- there were cousins I had never met (but I knew their names), my sister and brother, and of course my dad.

I clicked on an old google entry of my sister's and there she was in an email group of some sort talking about our mother's side of the family in the Cayman Islands. As I read the entry, I realized, as I'm sure my sister did at the time, that the information given to her in this group was incorrect. Even though her message was a few years old, I decided to see what the group was about and find out how I could correct the errors.

That's it. Simple as that I was hooked. I called my mother. She went into an old suitcase of her father's and pulled out 2 yellowed and fading 8-1/2 x 11 pieces of paper. On one he had sketched out a basic family tree years before and on the other was a list of immediate family members with birthdays, marriage dates, and dates of death -- a family bible of sorts. My mom faxed the 2 sheets of paper to me, and there begins my journey.