Why genealogy?

In short, I love history. To me, history is like looking into a pair of beautiful dark brown eyes. The more you look at them, the more you want to know what is behind them, and eventually, you just get lost in them. Ok, ok, so I am a romantic, too.... But, I think genealogy is fascinating. It is romantic. Genealogy is more than just putting names and dates in your family tree, it is giving life to those names. It is finding pictures of your great great great grandparents who came to America in search of the promised land. It is compiling their life story so that others can appreciate where they came from. It is all of this and so much more. It is giving new life to old branches.