I've really enjoyed reading all the messages on this. I always liked graveyards, long before I was interested in genealogy. One of the aspects that really grabs me is the detective work, pouring over facts and putting a larger picture together. I have trouble getting anyone to listen when I have some new info on long gone family members. Not much more than polite inattention, if there is such a thing. But they do come to me when the family history school projects come along, and I give them everything I can to help. I think people should really copy and print any info they find on scattered web sites. Left online, you may as well just write it down in the sand. Who knows what temporary catastrophy could destroy it forever... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Morris" <sacres@intergate.com> To: "Kim" <Kimcagle@hotmail.com>; <tnhenry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [TNHENRY] GENEALOGY IN SCHOOLS > Thanks for the kind words. Like you, I do believe all the work I have done > will not be in vain. If so, if makes no difference because I am having > soooo > much fun doing it all. I have met the nicest people online, and it seems > where ever I go to do research I run across someone that is somehow > related > to me..It is amazing!! All you have to do is drop a few names & someone > comes up to you saying they have that same name in their gene pool..Seems > I > can't go to a library without meeting a distant relative..I only wish I > have > of had the God given sense to be interested in all this many years > ago..But > it is the generosity of strangers that never ceases to amaze me..I truly > believe that everything happens for a reason, so there is definitely some > reason for my driving obsession of finding my ancestors..Maybe the reason > is > only to make sure my granddaughters one day know who & where they came > from...but that is good enough for me. I wish someone had cared enough > about > me to leave my ancestry behind..It definitely would have been much > easier..But as another researcher at the library told me....."What would > be > the fun in that if it were easy?" He does have a point!! I do love the > challenge, but I also love to get rewarded every so often... > > Thanks, > Joan Broach Morris > > P.S. My little granddaughter has some of the names memorized..She loves > some > of those old names..I wouldn't be surprised if some of those old family > names don't show up for some of her future children, my great > grandkids..Wouldn't that be great??? That would be more payment than I > ever > thought possible!! > >

Yes, our grandkids always get high grades on genealogy papers - thanks to me and their Aunt Leah. I recently helped my grandnephew get an A. I sent him far more info than he asked for in hopes he'd catch the bug - but alas. Jim > I've really enjoyed reading all the messages on this. I always liked > graveyards, long before I was interested in genealogy. One of the aspects > that really grabs me is the detective work, pouring over facts and putting > a > larger picture together. > I have trouble getting anyone to listen when I have some new info on long > gone family members. Not much more than polite inattention, if there is > such > a thing. But they do come to me when the family history school projects > come > along, and I give them everything I can to help. > I think people should really copy and print any info they find on > scattered > web sites. Left online, you may as well just write it down in the sand. > Who > knows what temporary catastrophy could destroy it forever... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Morris" <sacres@intergate.com> > To: "Kim" <Kimcagle@hotmail.com>; <tnhenry@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:44 AM > Subject: Re: [TNHENRY] GENEALOGY IN SCHOOLS > > >> Thanks for the kind words. Like you, I do believe all the work I have >> done >> will not be in vain. If so, if makes no difference because I am having >> soooo >> much fun doing it all. I have met the nicest people online, and it seems >> where ever I go to do research I run across someone that is somehow >> related >> to me..It is amazing!! All you have to do is drop a few names & someone >> comes up to you saying they have that same name in their gene >> pool..Seems >> I >> can't go to a library without meeting a distant relative..I only wish I >> have >> of had the God given sense to be interested in all this many years >> ago..But >> it is the generosity of strangers that never ceases to amaze me..I truly >> believe that everything happens for a reason, so there is definitely >> some >> reason for my driving obsession of finding my ancestors..Maybe the >> reason >> is >> only to make sure my granddaughters one day know who & where they came >> from...but that is good enough for me. I wish someone had cared enough >> about >> me to leave my ancestry behind..It definitely would have been much >> easier..But as another researcher at the library told me....."What would >> be >> the fun in that if it were easy?" He does have a point!! I do love the >> challenge, but I also love to get rewarded every so often... >> >> Thanks, >> Joan Broach Morris >> >> P.S. My little granddaughter has some of the names memorized..She loves >> some >> of those old names..I wouldn't be surprised if some of those old family >> names don't show up for some of her future children, my great >> grandkids..Wouldn't that be great??? That would be more payment than I >> ever >> thought possible!! >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHENRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Your Helpful Family Historians Jim Burnette Leah (Burnette) Hoins