> Hi Diggers! (I havent called ya that for a long time!)<g> > > Now that I am home from my dream trip. It took 31 hours to get here with the lay overs and flights but I am safely home. AND I am so in love with the USA, Eventhough, Australia and New Zealand are wonderful..... they 'arent the USA'... I am a bit nostalgic....and want to write ... Like Jan and I used to on these lists ocassionally. > > While some people consider genealogy to be a waste of time ..... or perhaps the hobby of a 'bean counter' , it is much more than that. You have to have imagination, the love of mystery....the heart of a detective. You must be dedicated to the preservation of factual information, weeding the truth from misinformation. And you must love history, the spnning of yarns and lore. When a yarn is unraveled you will usually find some smattering of truth. Remember that most of our ancestors didnt read or write...and it yarns were the telling of history... So it too has great value. It is the salt and pepper of the research for most of us. > > Please when you are with your mother or other senior family member or friend, this Mother's Day... Remember to take a recorder or take a note pad... I love the recorder myself... I have (with permission, of course) placed one out of sight and visited with 'oldtimers' and gathered precious histories over a piece of cake and coffee.....Later you can investigate the legitimacy of the stories you were told . I have taken this to a further extreme.... I have some recordings of my Mother, Aunt Frances and Aunt Ann and me...singing the old hymns.... and the bantering between songs....Those precious ladies are gone now. They were my mothers.... but I have these tapes. And sometimes when I am particularly strong, I listen to them .... I weap a bit ...but I smile more... and sometimes I actually sing along again....... I can hear us now... singing 'I'll Fly Away''..... Mother would lead, Aunt Frances was Tenor, Aunt Ann was Alto, and I was...hummm ...any where I could fit!<g>! (! > usually crossing from one place to another ..depending upon who was standing closest to me! > > The stories that my grandmother shared.... and my uncles... are on tape as well in my heart..... There is just something about hearing Mama tell a story on one of her son's when he got in trouble because he pulled up the peas from the pea patch rather than 'picking' peas.... > > So please if you havent started doing this ...give it a try.... You may want to do this for your own kids.... "Someday''.... they will cherish it. > > > Its good to be home. > Cher > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DANVILLECROSSING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Cher, welcome back. Tell us more about your trip when you have time. Chuck Owen Laredo, Texas chxowen@stx.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <ace1125@bellsouth.net> To: <TNDICKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: [TNDICKSO] Mother's Day and musing.... > Hi Diggers! (I havent called ya that for a long time!)<g> > > Now that I am home from my dream trip. It took 31 hours to get here with > the lay overs and flights but I am safely home. AND I am so in love > with the USA, Eventhough, Australia and New Zealand are wonderful..... > they 'arent the USA'... I am a bit nostalgic....and want to write ... > Like Jan and I used to on these lists ocassionally. > > While some people consider genealogy to be a waste of time ..... or > perhaps the hobby of a 'bean counter' , it is much more than that. You > have to have imagination, the love of mystery....the heart of a detective. > You must be dedicated to the preservation of factual information, weeding > the truth from misinformation. And you must love history, the spnning of > yarns and lore. When a yarn is unraveled you will usually find some > smattering of truth. Remember that most of our ancestors didnt read or > write...and it yarns were the telling of history... So it too has great > value. It is the salt and pepper of the research for most of us. > > Please when you are with your mother or other senior family member or > friend, this Mother's Day... Remember to take a recorder or take a note > pad... I love the recorder myself... I have (with permission, of course) > placed one out of sight and visited with 'oldtimers' and gathered precious > histories over a piece of cake and coffee.....Later you can investigate > the legitimacy of the stories you were told . I have taken this to a > further extreme.... I have some recordings of my Mother, Aunt Frances and > Aunt Ann and me...singing the old hymns.... and the bantering between > songs....Those precious ladies are gone now. They were my mothers.... but > I have these tapes. And sometimes when I am particularly strong, I listen > to them .... I weap a bit ...but I smile more... and sometimes I actually > sing along again....... I can hear us now... singing 'I'll Fly > Away''..... Mother would lead, Aunt Frances was Tenor, Aunt Ann was > Alto, and I was...hummm ...any where I could fit!<g>! (! > usually crossing from one place to another ..depending upon who was > standing closest to me! > > The stories that my grandmother shared.... and my uncles... are on tape as > well in my heart..... There is just something about hearing Mama tell a > story on one of her son's when he got in trouble because he pulled up the > peas from the pea patch rather than 'picking' peas.... > > So please if you havent started doing this ...give it a try.... You may > want to do this for your own kids.... "Someday''.... they will cherish it. > > > Its good to be home. > Cher > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DANVILLECROSSING-request@rootsweb.com 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 TNDICKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message