>> >>Sent from another list but thought I should pass it on. >> >>The Story Tellers..... >> >>We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who >>seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make >>them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they >>know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of >>facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are >>the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, >>as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell >>our story. So, we do. >> >>In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood >>before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the >>ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many >>times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there >>for me? I cannot say. >> >>It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I >>do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost >>forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. >>The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to >>doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were >>able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes >>to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or >>giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their >>family. >> >>It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It >>goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. >> >>That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. >> >>With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because >>we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of >>my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer >>the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. >> >>That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those >>young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. ( Unknown Author ) > >--------------------------------------------------- >Mary Ann Kaylor > >MY FAMILY GENEALOGY >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html > >CONVERSE CONNECTIONS >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~converse/index.html >CONVERSE MAIL LIST Adminstrator > >TEDROW MAIL LIST Administrator > >KAYLOR MAIL LIST - To subscribe, please review >KAYLOR MAIL LIST GUIDELINES: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~zimzip/kaylor/maillist/ > > > > > > > >==== KAYLOR Mailing List ==== >Visit My Family Genealogy homepage, includes Kaylor surname: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >