>Subj: A brief moment of less serious genealogy Date: 97-08-06 00:36:59 EDT From: [email protected] (Ruth Davison) Resent-from: [email protected] To: [email protected] This was sent to another list and I thought you would enjoy it as much as I did. Please excuse this brief moment of humor about genealogy. But, I thought everyone doing genealogy research has felt this way at some point. > > > 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 ----> > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- From [email protected] Tue Aug 5 22:40:27 1997 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mrin70.mail.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id WAA05163; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:40:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19368; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:39:46 -0700 Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:39:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: Ruth Davison <[email protected]> Subject: A brief moment of less serious genealogy Resent-Message-ID: <"K6vW9.A.PcE.pO-5z"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/93 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] <