Here Here, Your message was very well put; especially in this day and age. A lot of middle-class Americans live better in the twenty-first century than royalty lived two-hundred years ago. I'm thankful everday for what I have, not just on Thanksgiving. Thanks for the reminder! ;-)) Thomas Gronenthal ----- Original Message ----- From: <WMFHLNGR@aol.com> To: <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com>; <Germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:06 AM Subject: [G-P-L] Germans and Thanksgiving Day >I have read in the past few days, many people expressing > their appreciation for their ancestors coming here and now > we celebrate it with a national holiday. > > Many times on "our" websites I read questions from someone > researching their ancestors. Their questions are so basic that > you can see they no nothing of the lives of those people before > they came here. > > If they went to a library or book store and got a book or two > about their ancestors background history, they might appreciate > many, many times more these people. They don't realize what > terrible lives, for many reasons, that they suffered and survived. > > Thanks to our two German websites for our increased learning > of our ancestors. > > Bill Fehlinger-NJ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >