--WebTV-Mail-287842059-17 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Thought this might be a little levity. RUTHIEM --WebTV-Mail-287842059-17 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.99) by postoffice-242.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:44:58 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <HORTON-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id PAA14022; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08211; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:29:42 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:29:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001001be57ab$222ab180$4505e7cf@Coolgram> From: "Eileen Anderson" <coolgram@dm-tech.com> Old-To: "HORTON FAMILY ASSOCIAATION" <Horton-L@rootsweb.com> Old-Cc: "ANDERSON (Arlis Renfro)" <arenfro@worldaccessnet.com>, "Pat Weaver" <hweaver@tco.net> Subject: Fw: [HORTON-L] Wish list Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:46:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Resent-Message-ID: <"J73d_C.A.BAC.lrgx2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: HORTON-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: HORTON-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <HORTON-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1184 X-Loop: HORTON-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: HORTON-L-request@rootsweb.com "I WANT" > I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard >or Melchizenick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not William >Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott. > I want ancestors who could read and write, had their >children baptized in recognized houses of worship, went to school, purchased >land, left detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had >their photographs taken once a year -- subsequently putting said >pictures in elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic >inscriptions, and carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their >headstones. > I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in >established, still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries. > I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the >military as officers and who served in strategically important (and well >documented) skirmishes. > I want relatives who served as councilmen, schoolteachers, county >clerks and town historians. > I want relatives who `religiously' wrote in the family >Bible, journaling every little event and detailing the familial relationship >of every visitor. > In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to >have arrived only in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by >National Archives, and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to >have done so only in those jurisdictions which have since established indices. > I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who >joined every patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and >listed all their addresses, who had paintings made of their houses, and who >dated every piece of paper they touched. > I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and to keep for >generations, the tribal homestead, and who left all the aforementioned >pictures and diaries and journals intact in the library. > But most of all, I want relatives I can FIND!!! I got this on another list and thought everyone might enjoy reading it. Eileen Horton Anderson --WebTV-Mail-287842059-17--