As most of you know, I've always believed that genealogy was much more than just names, dates and locations. Yes these are extremely important, but most of us want to know more - something about these people we call Job(e) ancestors and cousins. This is why my notes are so-detailed on my gedcoms, the reason we have the records/photo and memorial albums. This was also why the tribute pages were started and these Memory Lane pages are being created. We do the best we can to really 'get to know' these people, their struggles, feelings, and the times in which they lived. And even though the years have gone on - sometimes I have to wonder, How much has really changed? *First of all special thanks to those who have sent in 'their Christmas story or the story of one of their relatives.' We do now have several and I hope to get a few more in the next few days. Will begin getting these posted starting in a week. Meanwhile, THIS WEEK, I'll be posting a few that do not specifically relate to Christmas. I just found a 7 page double-spaced typed 'autobiography' that I wrote of my life in 1968-1969 from my birth to when I finished grade 5. I'm going to be dividing it into 7 parts and posting one part a day. The first part will be in a following letter. I'm going to leave as much as possible the way that I, as 16-17 year wrote and remembered it at 'that time'. There would be very few people mentioned who would still be living today. Also, This week, I'll be posting some of the interview that Patti did with her father-in-law - though I'll be leaving the 'Christmas part' until the Week after. The one letter that was on Elisha's page has now been moved to a new Memory Lane page just for Joseph W. Jobe and Catharine Buress descendants. Logan Jobe descendants will soon be getting their 'own memory lane page'. Remember all the links to these Memory Lane pages can be found on the main links page - under the proper lineage. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe.html Since I didn't have a page started for my own group, figured it was about time that I started something. As time goes, I'll try to add more things to it. **Now I do ask, when you reply to these or any of the Christmas letters to the list, that you delete as much as possible of the previous letter that you're replying to - since some of the letters will be a bit longer than some 'usual letters' to the list. Some of them will be posted to the list in parts! Ann (Jobe) Brown