Dear Lois and all, Just to let you know, you are not the only one who has experienced a 'time shift' while delving into the genealogy past. I am reminded of the times I would overhear my father visiting with an old cousin, discussing the time of the Civil War and telling stories--and thinking...Good heavens..it is as if they were there! ( Both born after 1900..)Shades of Shirley (Beaty) McLaine ! Perhaps this lure of the past...and skill of the author to put himself , and reader, into the mountain villages of N.C. in the book ,'Cold Mountain'.., was so emotionally moving to me....Hope the movie won't muck it up. I ordered the videos from the History Channel of the 'Docu-bios' of the Hunter Heros --Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett....mainly to share with some English friends who loved the stories of these men...but to them it was the old TV series of "Fess Parker and a coonskin cap.". enough, Marlene Beaty L2C

Marlene and Beatty Cousins, I just got off the phone with my dear sister who lives in Florida (I am in Michigan!), because I just had to tell my Sis about my strange genealogical experience yesterday! She and I are less than a year and a half apart, and yet, we are like identical twins. If she gets a neck ache, I feel her pain hundreds of miles away, and vice-verse! I couldn't tell her about my day yesterday on an e-mail, because she just got her first computer and doesn't know how to use her e-mail too well, yet! When I told her that it is not surprising that I had such a strange day yesterday, "Because, after all, the full moon is tomorrow (9th)." She quickly told me, "Dear sister, last night, yesterday, Wednesday, the 7th, was the full moon!" It really doesn't matter, because the effects on some of us begin sometimes a week before and last for a week afterwards! Yes, and we talked about Shirley McLaine this morning, too! I was reminding her that when the wife (Gladys) of our grandmother's youngest brother, Asa Merle "Dick" Beatty died in 1997 at age 94, my mother's youngest sister told me that she got a phone call from their grandson. Gladys' husband had died in 1993 at the age of 99. The only son of Dick and Gladys was adopted by "Dick" and was, supposedly, the biological son of Gladys by a former husband or relationship, so the son was not a Beatty by blood, supposedly. "Dick" and his wife were both ministers, each in a different sect, and they argued about religion all the time! Great-uncle Dick had spent four years in prison when he was young, because he had stolen some chickens to help feed his brothers and sisters! Shades of "Les Miserables, but he did have a temper and probably kept escaping! I, myself, have watched Great Uncle Dick tell that story, and I was fascinated by the couple of glistening front gold teeth tha! t he had! Oh, yes, he was full of the "Ol'e Beatty Dickens!" When he got out of prison, he was a changed man and became a minister, and a few years later, he met Gladys, who was a minister, also. What a fiery, exciting life they had, and they loved each other, dearly! On the phone that day, the grandson told my aunt that he found a genealogy booklet of Shirley and Warren's Beaty Family History in his grandma's house, and the book proved our relationship to that family. He told my aunt that she could have the book, since he is not really a Beatty. I kept reminding my aunt to drive up north and get the booklet from him and even offered to drive her. My aunt died suddenly in 1999, and I still miss her and her knowledge about the family. I am still waiting for her five adult kids to go through her photos and family history notes! Sometime in 2000, I made that call, myself, and learned that the adopted son of Great-uncle Dick was in a nursing home with no memory left at all; the grandson had just been placed in a nursing home and suffering from Alzheimer's; and the great-grandson I talked to did not give a darn about the Beatty family at all! "No, I never heard of such a book," he said, and hung up the phone! I have written a letter to another grandson in California, who was living with Gladys and taking care of her during the time that she died. I am hoping to hear from him. My letter has not come back, so he must still be living at that address. Now that we are on this strange but wonderful subject, Gladys died at 4:00 PM on 01 August 1997. That evening, I received a phone call from her grandson in California, telling me about her passing. I could not help but ask him exactly what time she died. Of course, he called me because he knew we were having the family reunion that day. I almost fainted when he told me the exact time that she died, because I knew that it was the very moment that I had finished hand-carrying a very large belated birthday card around at our family reunion, so that everyone could say a hello and a belated happy birthday to Gladys! There was a chance that she was going to travel to Michigan and attend our reunion, so I had delayed sending a birthday card to her before her June 27th birthday. I thought it would be much better to celebrate her birthday right at our reunion. When I told her grandson over the phone about the card and asked if he wanted me to send the card, anyway, he really g! ot choked up and told me, "Yes, if you don't mind, I would love to have it as a keepsake!" She was at home and he was with her when she just "Closed her eyes and went to sleep." My sister and I laugh at ourselves at times, but there is no doubt about it, that some of us have the gift of communicating by some means of mental telepathy, not only with other living people, near and far, but with people who have left this earthly life. We come quite hereditarily by it, because on my father's side of the family, the brother of our g-g-grandmother was one of the first spiritualists in this country, and his communicated with people who had "Gone Beyond." I have three copies of the, now, out-of-print autobiography, published in 1893, of Ensign Beals Litchfield, whose pen name was Beals E. or "B.E." Litchfield. The book is a wealth of genealogy and entitled, "Forty Years Intercourse with the Denizens of the Spirit Spheres." I also have a few of his diaries and the first book that he wrote in 1890, claiming that every word was "Received" by him from his brother, who had been dead for 57 years. He said that the thoughts flowing from his brother were coming in just as fast as he could write them. Ensign Beals Litchfield believed, also, that it is a gift, similar to having perfect pitch in music or being able to draw or paint a picture of someone or something you have never seen before, but he believed that the person, object, or scene in your painting was is in your "Inborn Memory" from the day you were born. At 9:30 this morning I received a call from my second cousin, my dear Beatty cousin, who was scheduled for lung surgery today, and she was laughing, because her surgery has been postponed until tomorrow. It seems that the doctor had an emergency heart surgery to perform today. I asked her if it upset her having the surgery postponed, when she was so "Ready" to get it behind her. She laughed again and said, "No, it means I can have something to eat!" Back to family history... Lois (Griffes) Kortering ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlene Beaty" <viowl5894@earthlink.net> To: <BP2000-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:10 AM Subject: [BP2000] Re: Lois and the Genealogy Time Machine > Dear Lois and all, > > Just to let you know, you are not the only one who has experienced a 'time > shift' while delving into the genealogy past. I am reminded of the times I > would overhear my father visiting with an old cousin, discussing the time of > the Civil War and telling stories--and thinking...Good heavens..it is as if > they were there! ( Both born after 1900..)Shades of Shirley (Beaty) McLaine > ! > > Perhaps this lure of the past...and skill of the author to put himself , and > reader, into the mountain villages of N.C. in the book ,'Cold Mountain'.., > was so emotionally moving to me....Hope the movie won't muck it up. > > I ordered the videos from the History Channel of the 'Docu-bios' of the > Hunter Heros --Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett....mainly to share with some > English friends who loved the stories of these men...but to them it was the > old TV series of "Fess Parker and a coonskin cap.". > > enough, > Marlene Beaty L2C >