At church today, there was a regional broadcast for stake conference. In one of talks, or sermons, there was counsel given concerning doing genealogy and family history work. For me personally I love doing genealogy, because that means I learn something from people who I am directly related to, even for hundreds of years ago, and there is a great love I have for them.
I think when we come to learn of people that we stem from we gain an appreciation of who we are, and even for the things that we have. For instance, I learned a year ago that I go all the way back to Scotland on my father's father's side, and in the middle of that there's Irish; on my father's maternal side we are descendents of French and German immigrants.
There's more of course, but that's just an example. I know on my maternal side I have Swedish ancestors, and ancestors who are from the Southern states, and (probably) fought in the American Civil War for the Confederate Army. I take that position because an ancestor was named after General Robert E. Lee.
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