I thought she expressed it so well - the feeling of walking in your ancestor's steps - it needed no response. I have walked in my ancestor's steps in Virginia, Kentucky and all over Missouri. It is a good feeling. J. On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:51 AM, james wrote: > The lack of responses indicates a lot of clean shoes. > > thanks for your reply > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When my husband retired, we bought an old farm (house is 120 yrs) on the Little Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio River, in WV - only to learn later that Abraham Thomas (and perhaps his father, Michael, my 5th ggrandfather) claimed and settled, at least temporarily, on "land in Monongalia Co on the Main fork of the little Kanaway (Kanawha) on the south side of said Kanaway to include his Settlement made in the year 1774" (Core). They have paddled up and down the river that runs by our house. We garden, have chickens, eat deer meat and fish, and are 2 mi of dirt road to the nearest neighbor, and it's dark at night and quiet. I often think I have some sense of how folks lived -- and then use my satellite internet connection to learn the weather forecast and whether the river will flood, and have my fresh roasted coffee beans delivered by FedEx - so I remind myself, it's only the slightest inkling.