Happy New Year...Everyone! >From: "Pat Huber" To: "kymrey bruchey" Subject: The Story Tellers Date: >Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:54:08 -0800 > >Hi Kym , > >Though you would like this ............Pat > > > >The Story Tellers..... > > We are the chosen. My feelings are 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. To me, 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 they fought to make and keep us a Nation. > It goes to a >deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. > 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 >them and they are us. 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 their place in the long line of family storytellers. > > >That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those > young >and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. > > (Unknown Author) > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus