I always remember the passage from "How Green Was My Valley" with similar sentiments: "I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes.   As I felt, so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as tomorrow and forever. Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning, and no end, and the hand of his father grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand, and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was, to Time That Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we found that we were one . . . "   written by Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley   Best Wishes, Susan On Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:16:06 PM, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> wrote: I agree. I used to feel very sad, thinking about those of my relatives who had passed away because I missed them. I still do, of course, but my family history 'hobby' (obsession) gradually revealed the bigger picture - that not only did many come before me but also many will come after me; what gives me the greatest pleasure is to be the chronicler of our many lives :-) Happy New Year! Karen > From: liverpud-49@rogers.com > To: Bristol_and_Somerset@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:01:43 -0500 > Subject: [B&S] Well said... from Family Tree Magazine Christmas 2013 > > > An excerpt from Family Tree Magazine article in Christmas 2013 issue by Diane Lindsay: > > "It's hard for the non-family historian to understand our hobby is a celebration of all our ancestors and that rather than piling the weight of mortality on our shoulders, it mostly makes us feel glad to be alive, to be part of a pattern, an unceasing patchwork of life, love and loss.  For me, acceptance that you can't have one without the other brings comfort and understanding of where we fit into The Great Scheme of Things". > > Well said. > > Edna - Ottawa >  > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message                         ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message