Research my family tree

i went to vacations to my relative BSG i never met before.
i also met two other relatives BV and VG with their sposes and children. my relative from my mail side is was such a revelation, he filled lots of gaps and i feel healed.

i discovered so much data beyond my expectations. i visited 3 graveyard and collected data from their books, and i visited one parochy and collected data of my austrian branch. and scanned old photos of them.
i have now data for 9/16 of my grand-grand-grandancestors.

i established contact with my polish line family member who is in this almost 7 years!

finaly the fruits of my labor!
i met my relative in person.
we sat for 4 hours and i let her talk first; it was great experience. i have now better understanding of my family.

entered 386 maternal and 112 paternal relatives so far.
and couple of old photos.

Mail side of my maternal Nono completed, as far as collecting oral data – called several relatives never met and they were happy for it! Get in touch with relatives in distant countries – they are excited for it as much as I am!
Yesterday the puzzle clicked together and now all branches are connected! What a wonderful sence of completion. There is one source I’m waiting an answer, but I did everything I could.
...and now I know all people in telephone directory listed under my mother’s maiden name!

the plan is to proceed with other 7 surnames until I collect all oral data from relatives: birth, education and death dates and places.
step 2 is to collect photos, stories and other info
step 3to purchase membership to state archive.
step 4 to travel to other cities within my country.
then I’ll see… :-)

I purchased GenPro and entered what I knew.
An uncle from mother’s side explained me a lot in great detail and I’m so happy for it.
I found a distant family member on facebook!
I also found my favourite uncle on facebook.

I contacted an uncle from father’s side (he – my father knows almost nothing) I last spoke 20 years ago and that is so great. That side of family was unknown to me and I’m finaly closing that gap. I am sad that gap ever existed.

I searched telephone directory, cemetary etc. Lots of work yet to do!

this is something i allways wanted to do
it is so much fun
i plan to get in touch with some distant relatives