Hey Barb, There's no doubt in my mind that we're all listening and for those of us who are all fired up come hell or high water to leave some sort of legacy about our personal lives and the lives of our ancestors, we know the importance of being prodded when we procrastinate and for someone to continue to encourage us. And sometimes we have to accept that for the time being it seems that no one is even interested in what we're trying to accomplish. Nonetheless, continue to do what you know is really important and keep the faith that in the long run it will blow the socks off future generations. vee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:30 AM Subject: [FOLKS] Re: Preserving History > Hi Kim and all, > Your thought about preserving your family history has been a recurrent > concern for me. Since becoming interested in genealogy, I have amassed a fair amount > of information and have been wondering how to get my children interested in > keeping at it after I am gone and following up on lines that are not finished. > Realizing I have to work with what I've got and not having Vee's gift of > writing, I decided to make a Heritage Scrapbook. That does not seem as daunting as > writing a whole book. Today I finished the first page. Hurray (BIG GRIN) On > it is a picture of me, age two, with the title, HERITAGE ALBUM of Barbara > Louise Stratiff. I then wrote three short paragraphs of general information about > ancestors and dedicated it to "those relatives who may be curious about the > people who came before them." > At least it is a start. > Where I have pictures I will include them, along with some newspaper articles > I have found. But, > since I do not have pictures of any ancestors in some of my lines I will need > to write short biographies of those people for whom I have found a few facts. > The more a get into it the more excited I am about them. For instance I > have copies of some advertisements found in an 1831 newspaper concerning a tavern > owned by my third great grandfather. Google.com gave me some articles about > taverns, bits of which I will include in the piece I will write about him. I > will find a picture of a bicycle to add to the page about my second great > grandfather who owned a bicycle shop. My grandfather was an undertaker. I' m not > sure how I will illustrate his page (another grin). I will include an ancestry > chart so the lines can be followed. > Well, you get the idea. Since I am such a procrastinator I needed to tell > someone what I am doing so that I will be prodded to keep going. Thanks for l > istening. > Barbara Moll