Since we just found my ggg gf grave last week, I thought this was kind of appropriate when I saw it on another board. I thought some of you might enjoy it. Have any of you ever finally found a relative several generations back like a ggg gf that was buried so near to where you lived that you passed by it many times, but NEVER knew they were there till many years later. Kind of a strange feeling huh? Terry > > Dear Ancestor > > > > Your tombstone stands among the rest; > > Neglected and alone. > > The name and the date are chiseled out > > On polished, marbled stone. > > It reaches out to all who cares > > It is too late to mourn. > > You did not know that I exist > > You died and I was born. > > Yet each of us are cells of you > > In flesh, in blood, in bone. > > Our blood contracts and beats a pulse > > Entirely not our own. > > Dear Ancestor, the place you filled > > One hundred years ago > > Spreads out among the ones you left > > Who would have loved you so. > > I wonder if you lived and loved, > > I wonder if you knew > > That someday I would find this spot, > > And come to visit you. > > > > Author Unknown > >