In a message dated 4/18/03 8:01:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: I didn't find any of my names on the Henry family "blind" but I do have a comment. I hope that the person who owns this blind with all the information on it, has had it copied, and I don't mean put on a database. Take the blind to a blueprint place and have them make a copy, both sides, for you. You have a record that this person did in their own handwriting. It's important to keep. It's family history. That's what its all about. Annie > As the story goes, "Aunt Annie" wrote letters to family members requesting > family information. The letters have long since been lost, but she > transcibed the information onto a window blind. I have no idea where she > found a window blind that is 5 ft wide by 8 ft high, but she found one. > She > then drew a tree on one side using different color crayons to draw the > limbs. The one side, which I refer to as the front side, contained 896 > names and is my direct line. My name was even included in this > information. > All of my brothers and sisters, except the baby of the family, were > included. Therefore, this dates the creation of the window blind to some > time between March 1960 and December 1965. On the other side (the back > side), she drew another tree which was color coded and contained 151 names. > > There is no indication as to the relationship of the people on the front > side to the people on the back side. > Aunt Annie also used names such as Tommy, Billy, and Bobby. There are 2 > problems with this: 1) I am assuming that Tommy = Thomas, Billy = William, > etc. and