This was sent to me on my Anderson List and I thought everyone might enjoy it as much as I did. Shirley [email protected] >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:37:39 -0800 (PST) >From: "Marijean Glover" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > "BE Colvin" <[email protected]>, "Cindy Gebelein" <[email protected]>, > "Elaine S. Miller" <[email protected]>, > "GEORGE PICARD" <[email protected]>, > "Judy Kay Mace" <[email protected]> >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:40:21 -0600 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 >Subject: [ANDERSON-L] Fw: GRANDMA & the FAMILY TREE >Resent-Message-ID: <"_vazE.A.uWB.iJ9M2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1503 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >My friend sent this to me and I am forwarding it because it was so good! > >Marijean > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] ><[email protected]> >Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 4:56 PM >Subject: GRANDMA & the FAMILY TREE > > >>My cousin from NJ sent me this - Enjoy!! >> >>Cathy >> >> >> >> >>GRANDMA AND THE FAMILY TREE >> >>There's been a change in Grandma, we've noticed her of late, >>She's always reading history or jotting down some date. >>She's tracking back the family, we'll all have pedigrees. >>Oh, Grandma's got a hobby, she's climbing Family Trees. >> >>Poor Grandpa does the cooking and now, or so he states, >>That worst of all, he has to wash the cups and dinner plates. >>Grandma can't be bothered, she's busy as a bee >>Compiling genealogy - for the Family Tree. >> >>She has no time to baby-sit, the curtains are a fright, >>No buttons left on Grandad's shirt, the flower bed's a sight. >>She's given up her club work, the serials on TV, >>The only thing she does nowadays is climb the Family Tree. >> >>She goes down to the courthouse and studies ancient lore, >>We know more about our forebears than we ever knew before. >>The books are old and dusty, they make poor Grandma sneeze, >>A minor irritation when you're climbing Family Trees. >> >>The mail is all for Grandma, it comes from near and far, >>Last week she got the proof she needs to join the DAR. >>A worthwhile avocation, to that we all agree, >>A monumental project, to climb the Family Tree. >> >>Now some folks came from Scotland and some from Galway Bay, >>Some were French as pastry, some German, all the way. >>Some went on west to stake their claim, some stayed near by the sea, >>Grandma hopes to find them all as she climbs the Family Tree. >> >>She wanders through the graveyard in search of date or name, >>The rich, the poor, the in-between, all sleeping there the same. >>She pauses now and then to rest, fanned by a gentle breeze >>That blows above the Fathers of all our Family Trees. >> >>There were pioneers and patriots mixed in our kith and kin >>Who blazed the paths of wilderness and fought through thick and thin. >>But none more staunch than Grandma, whose eyes light up with glee >>Each time she finds a missing branch for the Family Tree. >> >>Their skills were wide and varied, from carpenter to cook >>And one (Alas!) the record shows was hopelessly a crook. >>Blacksmith, weaver, farmer, judge, some tutored for a fee, >>Long lost in time, now all recorded on the Family Tree. >> >>To some it's just a hobby, to Grandma it's much more, >>She knows the joys and heartaches of those who went before. >>They loved, they lost, they laughed, they wept, and now for you and me >>They live again in spirit, around the Family Tree. >> >>At last she's nearly finished and we are each exposed. >>Life will be the same again, this we all supposed! >>Grandma will cook and sew, serve cookies with our tea. >>We'll all be fat, just as before that wretched Family Tree. >> >>Sad to relate, the Preacher called and visited for a spell, >>We talked about the Gospel, and other things as well, >>The heathen folk, the poor and then - 'twas fate, it had to be, >>Somehow the conversation turned to Grandma and the Family Tree. >> >>We tried to change the subject, we talked of everything >>But then in Grandma's voice we heard that old familiar ring. >>She told him all about the past and soon was plain to see >>The preacher, too, was nearly snared by Grandma and the Family Tree. >> >>He never knew his Grandpa, his mother's name was ... Clark? >>He and Grandma talked and talked, outside it grew quite dark. >>We'd hoped our fears were groundless, but just like some disease, >>Grandma's become an addict - she's hooked on Family Trees! >> >>Our souls were filled with sorrow, our hearts sank with dismay, >>Our ears could scarce believe the words we heard our Grandma say, >>"It sure is a lucky thing that you have come to me, >>! know exactly how it's done, I'll climb your Family Tree!" >> >>Author Unknown -- maybe a lady in Macon, GA. >> >> > > >==== ANDERSON Mailing List ==== >Try this link to <a href="http://www.tiac.net/users/ime/famtree/anderson/anderson.htm">Mary Deusen's web page</a> The page contains links to Anderson family books, webpages, mailing list, and a database of National Archive photographs of Andersons in the Civil War. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >