"While
is common for people to use the terms 'genealogy' and 'family
history' interchangeably, they actually have a subtle but different
meaning.
Genealogy,
the study of ancestry and descent, refers more to the actual search
for ancestors, while
family history,
the narrative of the events in your ancestors' lives, denotes the
telling of your family's story. Family history is genealogy come
alive."
So, for us, Genealogy is the bare
bones find the facts type activities whereas Family History tries to
bring some color and story to your ancestors lives ... Since we
don't believe that any of us would like to be remembered as just a
bunch of statistics such as when we were born, married, had children
and died, so we believe that to do our ancestors justice, we need to
try and learn more than the dates of events ... we need to learn
about where they lived, where they went to church, what their
occupations were, their involvement in the community and anything
else we can learn. |