The WORLD is in anticipation. A historical event is about to take place. You may wonder how what is about to happen on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 has anything to do with my blog. It has a lot to do with my blog and genealogy.

A historic event is going to occur down south, a momentous event really. Truly I never thought in my own lifetime such an event would happen. The world is in such turmoil and has been for some time so I felt this would never happen now.

The media is full of news about the comparisons between Obama and JFK. The reason this is applicable to my blog and genealogy is just that…. the history of what is about to take place and how history and people have led us to this time. Listening to all of the media information being generated by this historic event takes me back to the 1960s and JFK assassination. Of course, I was very young then and really I don’t remember anything about that time, but I do remember the RFK assassination of 1968 (I was 10). But all this talk of JFK brings me to think about my own parents. My dad was alive then when it happened and so I wonder what he would think about all this… would he be excited, amazed, hopeful? Being so young at that time I can’t recall any of the conversations between my parents that must have gone on at that time in 1963. Adult conversation. Now that I am an adult experiencing history as it is made it makes me think of how history and generation after generation has brought us to this point.

How exciting and yet trepidous this time is for us, for our generation at this time. Having been through all that turmoil of the 1960s and before (and after) I only hope that Mr. Obama will be safe, he will remain as stable as he seems to be and that he will be able to accomplish even one quarter of what the world expects of this imperfect human.