--part1_7a.8729ab.25b5d87f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, thought you would enjoy this.....I did! Helen --part1_7a.8729ab.25b5d87f_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <CENSUS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.37]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:04:28 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:04:02 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14657; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:03:26 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:03:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <002701bf614f$efec1380$120cfad1@g1w9k4> From: "L Grantham" <grantha@futureone.com> Old-To: <CENSUS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:04:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [CENSUS] Fw: An excursion in time Resent-Message-ID: <GggCeB.A.zkD.dv7g4@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: CENSUS-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: CENSUS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <CENSUS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4329 X-Loop: CENSUS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: CENSUS-L-request@rootsweb.com -----Original Message----- From: L Grantham <grantha@futureone.com> To: Chet Rhodes <chet.rhodes@worldnet.att.net>; GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 12:24 PM Subject: Re: An excursion in time Couldn't resist sending this on to you all > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chet Rhodes <chet.rhodes@worldnet.att.net> >To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:01 AM >Subject: An excursion in time > >I'm transcribing the 1830 Columbiana Co. Ohio census and the enumerator >puts Widow Jones, Widow Watson No given name. . Every time I see one of >those I want to BOX HIS EARS. And unfortunately there are a lot of widows >in that census. L Grantham grantha@futureone.com >I'm not deleting the body of this as i think we all should read it again. I >did have to laugh. > > >>Let us ponder the possibilities. >> >>New technology has just been released. You have been chosen. What is it >>you ask. Without getting too technical, you will be transported back in >>time. You will have a twenty minute window. The only rules are, you >cannot >>reveal who you are, how you got there, any future events and most >>importantly, you are only allowed to talk to one person. Oh, did I mention >>that you may only travel back in time once. Some time spatial displacement >>thingy prevents more then one trip. >> >>Who shall you visit. The gggrandfather who was adopted, leaving no trace >of >>his true bloodline. The gggggrandmother who is know only as Lizzy but is >>said to have been related to royalty. That distant uncle that family >verbal >>history says was a hero in the Civil, but who you suspect deserted and >spent >>two years under an assumed name. Which brick wall will you crumble today? >> >>For me the choice is easy. My trip will take me to farming community in >>Wake County, North Carolina. The date is 16 July. The year is 1850. With >>whom shall I converse you ask? Well, it won't be with an actual family >>member. You see I would rather chat with the census taker himself. I >would >>like to meet the man who decided on that day that it would be okay to >record >>family members by their initials and not their full names. Then to >further >>muddy the waters, he recorded my gggrandfather and his brother as female. >> >>Could it be that he was feeling poorly that day and hoped to finish early >so >>that he could return to his home and rest his feverish body? Is it just >>possible that maybe he was concerned about a wife who was nine months >>pregnant and at home all alone? Or did it just rain that day? >> >>For whatever reason, I would like to explain to him that for generations to >>come people would be perusing his days work in hopes of gleaming a little >>more knowledge about their ancestors. Who were they? Where did they come >>from? What part of them do I carry in me? >> >>I would like to explain to him about the months I spent searching for my >>roots, only to discover that the information was right before my eyes all >>the time. I would like to tell him how his decision to use initials had >>sent me climbing family trees that were not my own. How even when I >finally >>did begin to suspect that I had found my family, that the mis-tagging of my >>grandfathers sex had once again delayed my search. >> >>But alas, that would be against the rules. So after a warm greeting and an >>exchange of pleasantries we would part. And as he turned to complete his >>duly sworn rounds, I would.......KICK HIM IN THE HINNY. >> >>Chet >> >>______________________________ > ==== CENSUS Mailing List ==== Census Help Pages and other important Census Project information at; http://www.usgenweb.org/census/info/ Help keep free Genealogy information on the Internet, join Rootsweb Today! http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html --part1_7a.8729ab.25b5d87f_boundary--