Dear Debi, This is just perfect. Thanks you for sharing this with the list. -----Original Message----- From: debi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CAN-BC] re Vital events look up FORD Thanks, thanks soooooooo much for everyone's most helpful replies, suggestions and links. They have paid off !!. I contacted someone on the RAOGK list and have already had a reply from her. Turns out it's the right guy!. Amazing - this man had been searching for his father for 50 years and now at least knows his final resting place. I don't know how to word this properly so forgive me if it doesn't come off sounding just right. Genealogist are definitely are a special group of people. They spend countless hours researching; most of the time with little results. It's definitely an addiction - this family history thing but one that gives an individual their roots; ancestral connections and provides us with a background for our present lives. Most persons at least know who their parents are but sometimes along the line your research leads to someone just needing to know that much and with our 'genealogy instincts' to research and not give up this is an incredible resource to those individuals. This is my favorite hobby / pastime - I honestly don't know what I'd do without it and I'm just so happy that there are many others that feel the same. I'm going to attach here something I found on the internet some time ago ( author unknown) some of you have probably already read it. So all in all this is just a big thank you to everyone for being interested in genealogy / family. All the best......................debi in Golden, BC The Storyteller's We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us?" How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up,their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== Check the list's archives out at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html