What is genealogy? The value of genealogy today

To identify one’s origins.
To identify or confirm bloodlines and family relationships.
To trace one’s descent from a specific group such, as the 1820 Settlers or The French Huguenots.
To pass on information about family origins to one’s children by compiling a comprehensive family history, with a pedigree chart or lineage, for possible publication or just for one’s own personal interest.
To meet other sections of the family and to make new friends.
To find relatives of adopted or separated children.
To search for hereditary diseases.
To discover the personal relevance of political and/or religious history, travel and wars, fashion and culture, forms of transport, business and lifestyles.
To provide an outlet for an enquiring mind, to satisfy one’s own curiosity and enjoy the thrill of building a complex puzzle representing the lives lived by real people over centuries.