Jennifer, Cute Poem! Fortunately we know who we came from even though we hit many dead ends in Genealogy. With computers though, it seems like we get more gifts than dead ends. Happy Hunting! Kim Cahoon MCS Customer Support Administrator DTN: 535-4563 ---------- From: geneagen@juno.com[SMTP:geneagen@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 7:47 PM To: GEORGE-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Kim Cahoon Subject: Humor about genealogy Please excuse this brief moment of humor about genealogy. But, I thought everyone doing genealogy research has felt this way before..............I know that I have. > > > Poem on Starting > > I started out calmly tracing my tree, > to find if I could, the making of me, > and all that I had was a great grandfather's name, > not knowing his wife or from whence he came. > I chased him across a long line of states > and came up with pages and pages of dates. > When all put together, it made me forlorn, > I proved that poor grandpa had never been born. > One day I was sure the truth I had found. > Determined to turn this whole thing upside down. > I looked up the record of one uncle John, > but then found the old man was younger than his son. > Then when my hopes were fast growing dim, > I came across records that must have been him. > The facts I collected made me quite sad. > Dear old grandfather was never a dad. > I think maybe someone is pulling my leg. > I'm not at all sure I wasn't hatched from an egg. > After hundreds of dollars I've spent on my tree > I can't help wonder if I'm really me. > -Anonymous > > Quoted from The Family Tree News from The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy > Library, Moultrie, GA, > published free bi-monthly, August 1992. > > <---- End Forwarded Message ----> >