I think you said it all Cynde! Knowing how they lived and what they did make them more real, not just a bunch of names on a piece of paper....I belong to 6 other lists, and you are right, they are all boring, I got kicked off the Davis list for telling everyone Merry Christmas...and the list owner was one of my distant cousins! Rae Smith At 12:28 PM 09/26/1999 EDT, you wrote: >Dear Chip. > > boy are you going to get some responses to this one!! First of all let me >say that even if I didn't have a speck of Morton or Meltabarger or any other >Union County DNA, I would BEG to be on this list. Rootsweb or not. I belong >also to another list where anything other than BORRRRRING lineage lines are >forbidden. The only reason I stay on that list is to stir up their blue >blooded stiffiness once in a while. >What attracted me to Genealogy in the first place were the PEOPLE, not the >names , not the possibility of finding out that once of my Ancestors came >over on the Mayflower or whatever.. but the PEOPLE.. what did they think, >what did they do?? Why did they leave England or Prussia or whatever to >follow whatever dreams they had..I'm not putting this very well, but what I >have found is that their history is interesting to me, not as collection of >names but as a collection of people. (Dirt farmers every one! Not a blue >blood in the group thank God.) > >Your list is LIVING genealogy! I love it here. It's like going home and >sitting around with all the folks yakking over coffee and R-uh See. Let that >poor unfortunate woman go. And I hope the screen door don't hit her where >the good lord done split her. > >Love to all of y'all. > >Cynde > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== >If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps. > > Rae Smith http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/Lay.html http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/index.html