I used a geneology report I did in one of my anthropology classes to help me obtain a passport. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Branum <mamalin@1s.net> To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 AM Subject: [CHAHTA] Genealogy "Nut " thats me > I thought everyone would enjoy this. I have so many papers I don't know what to do with them. > Good thing I don't have a husband to be telling me what I needed to do with them...HAHA > Oh by the way this was on Rootsweb Review. > Hope all has a blessed day. > Regards, Linda > > IF I THROW IT AWAY, I'LL NEED IT > > by Richard A. Pence richardpence@pipeline.com > > As every genealogist knows, you can't be too careful when it > comes to throwing things away. No piece of paper, book, > periodical, pamphlet, program, syllabus, clipping, letter, post > card -- whatever -- should be thoughtlessly discarded. You never > know when you might need it. > > I sensed trouble when it turned warm the other day. Every spring > the cleaning bug takes a bite of my wife and eventually she > reaches my office. This time, when I saw she had the stepladder > with her, I knew it was big-time trouble! > > Over the years I have developed some pretty good defenses to > counter these annual spring cleaning rites. One method has been > the "high-shelf shuffle." Way up high, beyond her reach, is > where I put all the stuff that is beyond verbal justification. > > She moved in, quickly got up on the ladder and began calling the > roll: "Program for the 1987 NGS Conference?" > > "I was on the program. It's got my name in it." > > Plunk. > > "1994 Syllabus?" > > "There's a great article on finding ancestors in South America." > > "You don't have any ancestors in South America." > > "You never know." > > Plunk. > > "What about this pamphlet on GENEALOGY RESEARCH AT THE INDIANA > STATE LIBRARY? It's dated 1986." > > "That was the last time I was there. During Indy week." > > Plunk. > > "Summary of Your 1971 Employee Benefit Plan Options?" > > "I was saving it in case I needed the notebook cover." > > "For 30 years?" > > Plunk. > > "Here's a W-2 form for 1984." > > "So that's where that went." > > "What about these two boxes of genealogy magazines and > journals?" > > "There's good stuff in them!" > > "When was the last time you looked at one?" > > She had me there. "Well," I stalled, "I just can't throw them > away without checking. Someone may need them." > > "Who?" > > "Maybe the library?" > > "Call them. I'll get the number." > > Trapped. My only hope was a sympathetic ear. Librarians know > about saving things. If I can't keep all this stuff, at least I > can find a decent home for it. > > After pressing a couple of buttons, I got right through to the > librarian in the Genealogy Room. > > "Do you need any back issues of the NGS Quarterly?" I asked. > "I've got about 25 years worth." > > "Spring cleaning?" > > "Yeah. How did you know?" > > "Third offer today." > > "What about the Quarterlies?" > > "Are you kidding? Not only do we get several offers a week, > we're trying to get rid of ours. We have it all on CD-ROM now." > > "Come to think of it, so do I," I mumbled. > > I was getting desperate. "You've got to help me. My wife is in > my office and she's throwing genealogy stuff away!" > > "You could do what I do." > > "What's that?" > > "Wait until the others are in bed and go out and salvage what > you can." > > "Worth a try, but she'll probably check." > > "Maybe you could try some of the other libraries near by. You > can see what they might need by checking their online catalogs. > Or I can give you a list of libraries to call." > > "Never mind." > > "Finding Your Ancestors In the Mississippi State Archives?" > > Plunk. > > "What about this stack of 'This Month at the Library's Genealogy > Room'? There must be 200 of them." > > "Wait a second, I'll check with the library." > > Plunk. > > If we can just get through spring without a flat tire, it may > work out. By then I'll have most of the stuff I salvaged during > the midnight foray back on the high shelves and we'll be able to > find the spare in the car trunk. > > As for next year -- the other day I saw an Office Depot ad for > file cabinets with locks on them. > > [Richard Pence is retired and up to his eyeballs in his one-name > PENCE family study http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/ . > He thinks he should have gotten the big bedroom when the kids > moved out -- not the tiny one he now has to use as a combination > office, library, archives, and computer center. His wife, only > recently retired, divides her attention between creating a > showcase guest room out of the big bedroom and scouting for > fresh territory into which she can introduce those huge trash > bags.] > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > Choctaw Home Page: > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ >