Good for you, my gg grandmother and other in the family left a lot of write and a lot of old pictures , and my mother had me put it all on the internet, and on ancestry.com. she spent the last three year of her life telling me all about the family and about growing up in Newport Co and Attala Co MISS,. she said she wont people to remember the family , it was the best thing i ever don, and a lot of people has copy now, but only a few help on it,, Charles McAdams, p o box 20184 white hall ark 71612 tenman.1@sbcglobal.net phone 870 247 5123 ________________________________ From: "Burchfield, Mical D" <mical.d.burchfield@lmco.com> To: "msattala@rootsweb.com" <msattala@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, March 30, 2010 3:29:52 PM Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] A fun and interesting project It sounds interesting. I have been trying to talk my dad into writing his story but he is waffling. I'm going to give him the early years of my story so he can fill in some of the gaps and hopefully it will encourage him to write. ...Mical -----Original Message----- From: msattala-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:msattala-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mozelle P. Chason Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:20 PM To: msattala@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] A fun and interesting project Good for you, Mical!! I wrote some of my life story in a book entitled When Sweat Turns to Tears about ten years ago and it was the best therapy I ever had! My book covers the years 1932-45, which of course covers much of the Depression and WWII. My folks raised us 15 children, and most of us born first were raised on sharecropper farms. All my life I felt I was not as important as others due to the poverty in our lives, but writing the book and making it as positive as I could was so-o-o good for me. It was fun! And it made my mother so happy that I was "writing (her) book" because I wrote the stories she had told us over and over through the years. (I still have some books available for sale and would be happy to send them out for $14 plus shipping. Anyone interested, write me.) On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Burchfield, Mical D wrote: Mozelle P. Chason > This group has been quiet for a while so I thought I would throw > out a suggestion for those with itchy typing fingers. I have > started a project and it was suggested that I share this with > others who are interested in genealogy. > > This may sound a little self absorbed until you think about the > reasons for doing it. > > I am writing a book about my life. ...Now, I am not expecting it to > ever make the best seller list, be published or even be read by > others any time soon. I'm doing it for posterity. > > As I researched and organized my genealogy information, I got to > wondering what kind of lives my ancestors lived. What had they done > during their lifetime and where did they travel? What were they > interested in? What were their thoughts of the world and who were > their friends? What did they find humorous and what sadness did > they endure? > > I have been typing my book on Microsoft Word and adding old photos > of myself as a child with my parents, grandparents and siblings. > Photos of the first home I owned and my first new car. I sometimes > cover several years in a chapter, like when I was younger, and > later on I would cover one year in some chapters. > > Hopefully a few generations from now someone may be interested in > some of the things I did, the places I have been and the things I > have seen. > > I grew up as a military brat and lived around the world. I > sometimes went to school in old military Barracks and Quonset huts. > In the Philippines we visited a reservation where head hunters > (Negretos)lived and I have old photos my parents took to include in > the story. In Okinawa we visited old Japanese Castles and explored > old WWII gun batteries with the rusty old cannons still in them. > When we lived in the Philippines we lived a few blocks from a > jungle and my mother worried about Boa Constrictors crawling out > and getting us as we played outside. We moved from this tropical > jungle area, straight to Caribou, Maine in the middle of January, > where the temps were often well below zero. > > I remember when Sputnik was launched and the first man landing on > the moon. I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated and > the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade centers. > > On the humorous side, I probably should not mention attending a > wedding with friends in a nudist colony, arriving early to get a > seat well off to the side, and then realizing way too late, after > other guest started arriving, that the wedding ceremony itself was > not nude. Try sneaking out of a situation like that without drawing > too much attention to yourself. ...Not possible. > > It has been quite therapeutic at times writing my story. I was > surprised at some of the things I remembered, and remembered in > such detail. I was also surprised at some of the things I had > trouble remembering. It was nice writing about good memories and > quite hard to write about sad times like going through and > recovering from a divorce. > > I have suggested this book writing idea to friends who had strokes, > are recovering from physical setbacks and others who just have > spare time on their hands. They all have loved the idea and are > really enjoying their writing. > > I thought my book would go pretty quick, but it is getting quite > lengthy. I continually go back to edit and add new things I > suddenly remember. > > I do recommend giving this a try. I believe you will really get > into it. You can go into as much detail as you like or as little as > you like. It's your book and your story. > > Have fun. > > ...Mical > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MSATTALA- > request@rootsweb.com 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 MSATTALA-request@rootsweb.com 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 MSATTALA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message