Family History - long post!

I'm addicted - to Family History Research! Instead of going to bed lately, I haven't been up watching TV, blogging, facebooking, or surfing the internet. I've been researching our family! Here's my story:

For as long as I can remember, I've never worried about family history or having my genealogy done. I've known my family history has been done for my mom and dad's family. How far back? I couldn't tell you. Someone, somewhere has a book with all the information in it. I didn't care. It was done. In my p. blessing, it mentioned doing my family history. I didn't care. It was done.

About a month ago, Scott (my brother) asked if I'd been on new.familysearch.org and looked around the site. I hadn't. Why should I? It's been done. So he explains abit about it and it did spark my interest. But not enough to run home and check it out.

The following Sunday, there was a lesson on Temple Work. Once again, I thought to myself "It's been done". Good heavens, my family has been members of the church for a few generations and there have been plenty of temple-going family members and I assumed that they had all done the work. As I was sitting there, the thought came to me: Tim's family. It was like a bell went off. Hello! Tim's family is not like my family - they are not Latter-Day Saints several generations back. The thought that I needed to research into Tim's family history to see what needs to be done just kept coming back. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Someone on the other side gave me a kick in the behind to start getting the work done!

That night, I went to Scott's house and he physically showed me the website and how to check on things. Guess what? Some family member's temple work had not been completed. Wow! I had assumed it was all done - but there was work to do. In my own family! After we left, I started to get antsy about getting on the website and to start looking for Tim's family. I registered and started to look around to see what I could find and I'm now addicted! Every night, I'm surfing the web trying to find some information on a great-grandfather or great-grandmother. I've researched information to add his grandparents and great-grandparents and to get the temple work for them started.

I can't express how happy I am right now. I have a purpose to go to the Temple that I haven't had before - I am actually going to be doing temple work for Tim's family and that makes me so happy. This is special to me! Not that going for someone else isn't special or important, but this is closer to my heart.

A few nights ago, I kept telling myself that I needed to go to bed but I just couldn't get off the internet. I kept looking "one more time" for someone. Well, after a few "one more time" tries, I found tim's great-grandpa and great-grandma's death certificates. Their names haven't been submitted for temple work yet. So guess what we are going to be doing soon? When I found that information, I was like a little kid Christmas morning - you couldn't wipe the smile off my face!

I'm addicted! I feel so happy right now.