Shannon has always enjoyed learning about
history. Her father was a secondary
school history teacher and every story, family vacation, or trip to the local
grocery store became a history lesson.
As a child, she loved listening to the adults talk at family reunions or
other social occasions and hearing all the stories about the family. As an adult she never dreamed she could learn
more than what she knew, or in some cases completely destroy the family myths
with a search at an archive. She has become the second genealogist on her mother’s
side of the family, taking over from a cousin who researched the family’s history
in the pre-computer age.
In the fall of 2010 her oldest child came home from
school with a family tree project. This
was the catalyst Shannon needed to propel her head long into genealogy and
family history research. Shannon was
selected to be the second Family Tree Firsts Blogger through Family Tree University and wrote weekly blog posts from December 2011
to December 2012. She took this time to
jump start her genealogy education and really dug into researching her and her
husband’s family. Her tenure ended with
her first published article in Family
Tree Magazine “Testing the DNA Waters” in the December 2012 issue.
She started this blog, at the same time as a supplement to her
writing at Family Tree Firsts. It has quickly become a place for Shannon to post her research, hard sought for finds,
thoughts, opinions, and a myriad of other things that she found
interesting. She has always had a love
of teaching and education which makes a personal blog the perfect outlet for
her. TNT Family History can be found on Facebook and Twitter @tntfamhist.
As a relatively new genealogist Shannon is still looking
for her niche. She enjoys studying and
researching a large number of topics, but is passionate about only a
handful. In the near future, Shannon is planning on
becoming certified in the genealogy field.
She can’t wait to take her research to new heights, and into deep dark
dusty places, which currently, she can only dream about.
Check out the Welcome post for this blog to get started!
