What if You have hit a brick wall on you biological grandparents and no matter how much you tried you just couldn't find any- thing or the line that they came from. You knew sorta where the families came from but just couldn't find the link to them. What do you do? Sue <-----Original Message-----> >From: Bob F Smith III >Sent: 10/8/2006 10:02:18 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] phillips dna project > >Many years ago (more than 50) when I first started tracing my family >history, some of my distant (and some not so distant) cousins would >reply to my inquirys of what they may know of the family history with, >"why in the world would anyone waste their time dragging up all that old >stuff?" > >As the years went by those same cuzins come back to me asking for all >the info I had gathered so they could join this or that group that >wanted to know your family history. I would only give additional info >after they had sit down and completed all they already knew of their >heritage. Those that would take the time to do that, I felt were worthy >of benifitting from my years of hard (but enjoyable) work. Those who >did not want to take the time and just wanted to be "given" the that old >stuff, I simply told them how they could go about researching like I >had. Some did, some did'nt. > >They still come askin. > >Bob > >Carl Phillips wrote: > >> OH, I agree wholeheartedly. After all, this is just a hobby and many folks >are just not interested. >> Carl >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >>-------------------------------------------------------- >> >>Carl, >>I think we have to sympathize with them a little. If they're not interested >>in their history, etc., why should THEY pay? >>Best, Mike Moore >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >>Regards, >>Carl Phillips >> Hangtown >> >> >>--------------------------------- >>Do you Yahoo!? >> Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] 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 >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message >. > Click for free info on online degrees and make $150K/ year <http://tagline.bidsystem.com/fc/KCuVllZEXwzxRtpCQmZRjwfh0SpfKY/> <span id=m2wTl><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:13.5px">_______________________________________________________________<BR>Get the Free email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a><br> <font color=#999999>Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!</font></font></span>
start with your mother's birth certificate ? Picture of her wedding? who "gave the bride away " etc ? Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Bunn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 08 October 2006 18:42 Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] phillips dna project > What if You have hit a brick wall on you biological grandparents > and no matter how much you tried you just couldn't find any- > thing or the line that they came from. You knew sorta where > the families came from but just couldn't find the link to them. > What do you do? Sue > <-----Original Message-----> > >From: Bob F Smith III > >Sent: 10/8/2006 10:02:18 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] phillips dna project > > > >Many years ago (more than 50) when I first started tracing my family > >history, some of my distant (and some not so distant) cousins would > >reply to my inquirys of what they may know of the family history with, > >"why in the world would anyone waste their time dragging up all that > old > >stuff?" > > > >As the years went by those same cuzins come back to me asking for all > >the info I had gathered so they could join this or that group that > >wanted to know your family history. I would only give additional info > >after they had sit down and completed all they already knew of their > >heritage. Those that would take the time to do that, I felt were worthy > >of benifitting from my years of hard (but enjoyable) work. Those who > >did not want to take the time and just wanted to be "given" the that > old > >stuff, I simply told them how they could go about researching like I > >had. Some did, some did'nt. > > > >They still come askin. > > > >Bob > > > >Carl Phillips wrote: > > > >> OH, I agree wholeheartedly. After all, this is just a hobby and many > folks > >are just not interested. > >> Carl > >> > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > >>-------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>Carl, > >>I think we have to sympathize with them a little. If they're not > interested > >>in their history, etc., why should THEY pay? > >>Best, Mike Moore > >> > >>------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > >the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>Regards, > >>Carl Phillips > >> Hangtown > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------- > >>Do you Yahoo!? > >> Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. > >> > >>------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >[email protected] 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 > >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > >the subject and the body of the message > >. > > > > > Click for free info on online degrees and make $150K/ year > <http://tagline.bidsystem.com/fc/KCuVllZEXwzxRtpCQmZRjwfh0SpfKY/> > > > > <span id=m2wTl><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:13.5px">___________________________________________________ ____________<BR>Get the Free email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a><br> <font color=#999999>Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!</font></font></span> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >