----- Original Message ----- From: "Lona Boudreaux" <lona@pdq.net> To: <roosmars@zoominternet.net> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 7:18 PM Subject: Fw: [OHROOTS] Fwd: The Story Tellers > Hi Barb, > Have you seen this? Hope your Easter was good > > Lona > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Jmechls@aol.com> > To: <OHROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:23 PM > Subject: [OHROOTS] Fwd: The Story Tellers > > > > > > --part1_9c.1c6e19a2.29c01228_boundary > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > > > > > --part1_9c.1c6e19a2.29c01228_boundary > > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > Return-path: <Schumaker4@aol.com> > > From: Schumaker4@aol.com > > Full-name: Schumaker4 > > Message-ID: <39.23c5df7c.29c007cb@aol.com> > > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:39:23 EST > > Subject: The Story Tellers > > To: akfick@frognet.net, curtisj@webtv.net, hnorrisusaf@yahoo.com, > > sjhoff@gvtc.com, BCouch1015@aol.com, Jmechls@aol.com, Afr74@aol.com, > > PZeirott@aol.com > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 > > > > > > This is such a nice piece about 'us' who choose to do genealogy that I'm > sure > > you will enjoy it. > > > > The Story Tellers..... > > > > > > > > We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find > the > > ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell > the > > family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. > > > > Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing > life > > into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All > > tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who > > have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. > > > > In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood > > before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the > > ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many > > times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there > for > > me? I cannot say. > > > > It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do > > the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to > > weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here > > are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something > about > > it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. > > > > How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their > > hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their > > resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. > > > > It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and > keep > > us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were > > doing it for us. > > > > It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, > > without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, > > as far back as we can reach. > > > > That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. > > With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we > > are they and they are the sum of who we are. > > > > So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that > one > > called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the > > long line of family storytellers. > > > > (Unknown Author) > > > > > > > > Connie Cotterill Schumaker > > Schumaker4@aol.com > > Keep genealogy free! Volunteer > > > > "Practice random acts of kindness"...... > > > > Searching For: > > Aleshire, Anderson, Bradfield, Braley, Cleland, Carpenter, Cotterill, > Ellsey, > > Gotschall, Hayhurst, Hospelhorn, Lallance, Latham, Nease, Phelps, Pierce, > > Romine, Roush, Savage, Searles, Stevenson, Stone, Thomazin, Turner, > Walters, > > Wells, Woodruff, Warth, Zirkle. > > > > --part1_9c.1c6e19a2.29c01228_boundary-- > > > > > > ==== OHROOTS Mailing List ==== > > Homepage for this list is > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/mindex.html > > To search this list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter OHROOTS for the > list name. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > >