Viola, I too would like to encourage you. Just give it a break for awhile. I searched for 8 years for a lost branch of my family stemming from Wexford. I found them in Alberta, Canada last June and visited them right away. My elders had never known a cousin until I found them. I too thought nobody else cared. It's just that not everybody has the passion and resourcefulness we do. In one month 19 of those Canadian descendants will be coming to the States to meet the rest of their family here. It'll be the first family reunion we've ever had. Finding them has tied together the ends of time for me and given us all new family. Nobody will know the years of frustration, money, obsessive nights at the computer, time and brick walls we go through. Just take a breather and come back to it when it's fun again. One day one brick in that wall will crumble and a flood of answers will pour out. Somebody will thank you one day for all you've done and know that they weren't alone in caring about the family history. Tracy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Sutton Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 7:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers Viola; Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else who wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 or 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they were from or who their ancestors were. Keep pluggin away. Thom Sutton VIOLA HOAR <[email protected]> wrote: Hi mary, you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s getting to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE somebody in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you CLOSE UP SHOP!. Regards, Viola ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message