Global Q&A: ‘Have you taken time to learn about your family history?’

Gill Davies, 67, Retired Support Worker, Buderim, Australia: I haven't [researched] my family. I’ve tried. I've been to the U.K., and had a look at all the graves, and everything. But my husband has just finished doing his, and we’re off in three weeks time to go and meet a whole new family that we didn’t know we had. We’re going to the United States to meet three brothers and a sister, then we’re going to the U.K. to meet three more brothers. As an adoptee, Mark had no idea of siblings—[he] found through Ancestry.com that he was in fact one of nine, seven brothers, and one sister. (The Epoch Times)

Exploring family history has unveiled to people around the world the vast and interesting differences between their lives and the lives of their ancestors. This is what Epoch Times reporters from Canada to India discovered when they asked locals:

“Have you taken time to learn about your family history?”

 

Look for the Global Q&A column every week. Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspectives on local and global realities. Next week’s global question, “Do you feel your community is getting more or less safe?”