Check out A Mother-Daughter Ancestry DNA Story

Kristen Hyde explains her motivation behind taking the Ancestry DNA test, and she started researching our family tree in the mid-1990. I was in primary school and spent the next ten years deep in our family history. On 1997, my 10th birthday, my mom started unpicking the layers of our Ancestry family tree. Space was free on the family PC to make space for the Family Tree Maker Software, and all the space-time was committed to visiting our local Family History Library and the council archives of the region where her mother (my granny) and her family had lived.

Knowing my path around Ancestry.co.UK, I remember how much zeal and physical work my mother put into her research in the ten years. At the time, my full-blown adolescent did not value the massive undertaking my mother was going through. As she stopped over Cosmopolitan magazine trying to identify whether Joshua Jackson or Freddie Prinze Junior was more likely to be my celebrity boyfriend.

In 2005, on my 18th birthday, my aunt called my brother and said that my granny had passed away. I remember that morning and the fallout of that phone ring, my mother’s mourning as she cried on the sofa after she cut the phone. Even as an adult, no one prepares a child for the moment they have to comfort their parents through that kind of sadness. It made me scared of the day that I, too, would answer the same phone call. After the burial, my mother and her siblings began the slow process of wrapping up and distributing their mother’s belongings.

With my Granny and Pop now gone, my mother’s research seemed so much more precious and worthwhile. My puppy love for Freddie Prinze Junior was changed in the years that followed, with a true love for writing, reading, and cultural history. And whether it was a coincidence and destiny, all those years, my mother talked about her research at the dinner table. I took a job in Ancestry family history, working for the marketing team in Ancestry’s London Office. It did not take long unless I started to realize who had engaged my mother for the better part of a decade, the persons who had come before us, and the lives they had lived in a separate world to the tech-dependent life I am habitual with.

As a life-long diary keeper and old books lover, I became mesmerized by the records themselves and how menial documentation can be saved in such a way not to help us track our family history but our humanity. I checked my mother’s research, referring back to her family trees and the facts and records and feeling continually ticked by parity between my ancestors and my present family members. I loved the most was that the more I looked into my past, the closer I felt to my mother. I was proud of my mother’s research on family trees and that what was a private passion almost 20 years ago was now something we can share and relive again together. Taking the Ancestry DNA kit was the next expansion of my mother’s journey for family and the future that was coming together with the past.

She has hardened her findings or research in the record books, and I can help strengthen it through science and technology and offer a new eye to what she has discovered. After receiving my Ancestry DNA results, my mother and dad had tested. On the Skype call one morning, my parents were in the courtyard of our home in Australia while I rested in some English sunshine. I revealed the Ancestry results. Together, we read the ethnicity estimates, tracing the different nationalities back to certain forefathers or ancestors or talking through who they are and what role they played in our family story.

Even though my system screen and across my parents’ Wi-Fi signal, I can sense my mother’s passion and zeal, the same passion I have seen across the night at the dining table some years back. Our interest and curiosity to know where we come from can pique for different reasons. From 20 years, my mother started searching our family history; a movement made all the more precious when her mother died. Now, 20 years later, Ancestry DNA strengthened how much I value my own.

Hello Guys! My name is Sia Jodes and I’m a blogger. I live in Texas, USA. I got to know my family’s historical journey by activating my Ancestry DNA kit. Get your Ancestry DNA kit to generate your family tree and discover precise insights into your family’s story.

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