Why we B's don't know each other better
As I'm reading these things, it occurs to me that a lot of us don't know anything about relatively close family members, let alone distant cousins.While I was doing family research for a project in one of my college courses, I interviewed my grandfather.He told me that the Baxendells are a family of "hate, jealousy, and envy" that are prone to fight with each other, move away, and never speak to one another again.That explains why some of us don't know our first cousins, second cousins, and in some cases, siblings.This may not be news to many of you, but it's important to remember that some of us my not know each other because way back, our great-grandparents may have decided to make it that way and purposely hid family information from their children.You know, the old "Don't ever mention that man's name in here agai