Tracing My Family Tree

Tracing My Family Tree By Elton Camp With my family genealogy I became fascinated And much wanted to see to whom I was related I was sure that my ancestors were men of power Family rumors say they were on the Mayflower The previous two generations were easy enough Because my father kept a record of such stuff As I checked further back, it soon became clear One ancestor has been hanged as a buccaneer Another, I came to learn, his living had made By dealing in the most shameful slave trade About Grandpa Josh I found there’s no doubt That we have relatives we didn’t know about Then I learned that there was very good reason To think another grandfather was shot for treason And the Mayflower family story proved a bomb It was through Ellis Island our ancestors had come And when I traced them back to England’s shore I decided it best if I studied genealogy no more Because it might eventually become shown to me That my oldest ancestor was a monkey in a tree