What is a blessing?
Nowadays the word seems overused everywhere from tattoos to greeting cards. Yet scientists claim the odds of anyone being born are 1 in 400,000,000,000,000, so I don’t doubt that everyone of us are blessed just to be alive.
I do not want or need anything more than what I have already been given with my life. Because I believe that the blessing I have is something which has been here long before I existed and will continue for generations of my extended family after I am forgotten.
I feel blessed to know exactly how I got here, solely through one remarkable firstcomer gateway ancestor, twice in both Grandparents. With this blog I hope to detail my family’s unique genealogical connection to the extraordinary life of Richard More.
- Richard More was the first ancestor through both of my maternal grandparents to arrive in America.
- He met his wife Christian Hunter and her sister Elizabeth (also in my Grandfathers tree) on a ship named the “Blessing”.
- An ancestral thread of five women each with the same name, beginning with his first born daughter in America, woven through my grandparents families for over a century, ending with his Great Great Great Granddaughter, who was my mothers Great Great Great Grandmother and whose marriage linked my grandparents almost 150 years before their own.
- My grandparents even married on my birthday.
Yet the unconditional love I have shared throughout my life is the single best evidence I can offer to prove I am truly Blessed.
