John LOL I'm with you ...sure I can read about them and hear stories that have been passed down from long forgotten ancestors.. But when somebody tells me I look like great grandmother I want to see the picture for myself.. And SURPRISE nobody as one.... Dina Stockton CA -----Original Message----- From: John Blair <jblair@kalama.com> To: WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com <WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 9:37 AM Subject: [WALEWIS-L] How I wish..... > >> : I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or >Melchizenick >> : von >> : Steubenhoffmanschild or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not William Brown or >> : John >> : Taylor or Mary Smith. >> : >> : I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children baptised >> : in >> : recognised houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left >> : detailed wills, had their photographs taken once a year (subsequently >> : putting >> : said pictures in elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic >> : inscriptions), and with informative inscriptions on their >well-preserved >> : >> : headstones. >> : >> : I want family members who wrote memoirs, enlisted in the military as >> : officers, or served as schoolteachers, councillors, or town historians. >> : >> : I want kin who were patriotic and clubby, joined every local society >> : they >> : could find, who kept diaries, had paintings made of their houses, and >> : who put >> : a date on every piece of paper they touched. >> : >> : But most of all, I want ancestors I can find!! >> : > > > >==== WALEWIS Mailing List ==== > Old Genealogists never die, they just lose their census. > Pruning the Family Tree is NOT Permitted!!!! > I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days! > >