HI List, If I may also offer a defense to this also. I agree with what Dr. Maggie said about friendly exchanges like this, even if it seems to be a little off the subject. You know a lot of business has been done while playing golf. A lot of vital clues in family research can be discovered with these friendly exchanges. We kind of forget that we are, for the most part, a Heinz mixture of people. When we exchange with each other recipes that have been handed down in our families for generations, customs, traditions, how we celebrate our holidays, even word phrases, we are still doing genealogy, still tracing our roots. All of these things have roots in the different nationalities that make up this country. DO NOT OVERLOOK THEM!! When somebody says that my Moms grandmother, who lived in Tennessee, used to make a chocolate gravy for her when she came to visit, and the grandmother said that her grandmother used to make it for her out of special chocolate she brought with her from Germany, it could ring a bell with someone about where they should look next in the United States or another country. Don't ever overlook any offering like this. And, if fact, it would behoove all of these lists to have exchanges like this periodically or around holidays or if anyone runs across a site that relates to this very subject, pass it along. Remember, to do family research you must conduct yourself almost like a private investigator looking for clues to a mystery. Don't leave anything unturned. It also makes your story more interesting. I may have also stepped out of turn here also. Bev Clark [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 12/02/2000 4:55:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << How did recipies become a part of genealogy? This is not what we subscribe > to > the list for. >> > > Well .... speaking for only myself .... I think that my Gran's recipes .. the > way she cooked and what she cooked .. IS most definately a part of my > heritage. I know that there are things I make that are made the way she > taught me .. and I hope that my granddaughter, some day, will make some > things the way I teach her .. and remember me with as much love and joy as I > remember my Gran. (the lady from Drummonds, TN) > > While this is not a recipe list .. sometimes getting off just a little > like this allows the people on the list to become friendly .. it creates some > goodwill and a sense of camaraderie .. is that such a bad thing? Yes, > perhaps the responses to the request should have been handled privately > through emails, rather than to the entire list .. but to me, sitting up here > in Michigan and WISHING I was able to be in TN .. it seemed to be another > example of those wonderful Southern folks and their well-known generosity and > hospitality. I smiled when I saw the ladies reaching into their own family > books to give out to a total stranger a family recipe. > > Because that's exactly the way my Gran would have done it. Southern > habits are hard to break. > > Hugs to all .. and please forgive me if I have stepped out of turn to > voice my opinion. > > Maggie > > ==== TNROOTS Mailing List ==== > For researching all Rootsweb List Archives, > please go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/