Ring a bell????????? > Subject: poem > > I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still. > He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will. > He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences. > He avoided any man who came to take the US census. > > > He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. > And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name. > His parents came from Europe. They could be on some list > of passengers to the USA, but somehow they got missed. > > > And no one else anywhere is searching for this man > So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can. > I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed > but the weather took engraving and some vandal took the rest, > > > He died before the county clerks decided to keep records, > No family bible has emerged in spite of all my efforts. > To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many groans. > Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES. >