I Wish

Tracing my ancestors, 

Try to visualize my family tree

My late uncle Hector, 

he knew all about our pedigree

Though he kept a journal

With lots of stuff inside

Couldn’t read his writing

Heaven knows I tried

Got up in my attic

Opened up my aunt Larissa’s trunk

Found a little scrapbook

Mixed in with all of her other junk

Mapped three generations, 

Then I hit a wall

Found a bunch of photos, 

Too bad that was all 

I wish their names, were, 

written on the back

Why aren't there dates, why 

didn't she keep track 

I wish that I could

Read what Hector said

Wish he had used a

Typewriter instead

But that’s how it goes

Traveled to my homeland

Hoping that I might unearth a clue

It was quite expensive

My ancestors came from Timbuktu 

Searching through some records

That were pretty old

Found my great great gran-dad

Then the trail went cold

Almost gave up then I 

Learned of a new research avenue

Seems there is a website

So I went online to take a view

There were my ancestors

Starring back at me

And the line went back to

1463

I wish that I had

Gone online before

I wasted time and

Then I wasted more

I wish that I had

Known about the site

But in the end it

Turned out alright

Dute-dute-ti-do