My oh My what a question!! After researching for only 3 years I cannot imagine giving up the chance to do the chase and hunt of researching. I have been given stuff, butlooked at it and stuck it on the bookcase. I love to research, it stimulates my mind in ways that most things don't. I want more than the dry dates, I want the nitty gritty. When I started out my mother had 3 cousins on her Thompson side of the family. And none of them close. If nothing else my research has strengthened the family ties. This family is talking again. I feel a tremendous blessing when one cousin says "cousin so and so called the other night and we talked a long time" , when before it had been 10 years since there was any contact. I love it. I don't get to get out as often as I would like. But hopefully once it gets warmer and all I will be able to. Carol >From: Lanita Sconce Miller <ozarkn@southwind.net> >Reply-To: ozarkn@southwind.net >To: MO-OREGON-HISTORY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] topic >Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:29:46 -0600 > >Okay.. let's make it harder.. > >Let's say that all the information on every ancestor, guaranteed to be >true with documentation, is available to you, and there is no more >'need' to search, stomp through cemeteries, read census, Wills, etc.... >It's all handed to you on a silver platter... would you take it, or >would you say, no thanks, I'll do it myself!!... > >Lanita > > >==== MO-OREGON-HISTORY Mailing List ==== >http://www.oregoncountyhistory.net/ _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail