Sealights' Genealogy Links

I started out calmly tracing my tree
To find, if I could, the making of me
And all that I had was Greatgrandfather's name
Not knowing his wife or which way he came.


I chased him across a long line of states
And came up with pages and pages of dates
When all put together it made me forlorn
I'd proved poor Greatgrandpa had never been born.


One day I was sure the truth I had found
Determined to turn this whole thing upside down
I looked up the records of one Uncle John
But then found the old man to be younger than his son.


Then when my hopes were fast growing dim
I came across records that must have been him
The facts I collected then made me quite sad
Dear ol'Greatgrandfather was never a dad.


I think maybe someone is pulling my leg
I'm not at all sure I wasn't hatched from an egg
After hundreds of dollars I've spent on my tree
I can't help wondering if I'm really me?----Anonymous