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From: "Marion U. Pockrus" <>
Subject: Fw: [MDSTMARY-L] Genealogy Poetry
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:25:47 -0600


> > > They think that I should cook and clean,
> > > and be a model wife.
> > > I tell them it's more interesting
> > > to study Grandpa's life.
> > >
> > > They simply do not understand
> > > why I hate to go to bed . . .
> > > I'd rather do two hundred years
> > > of research work instead.
> > >
> > > Why waste the time we have on earth
> > > just snoring and asleep?
> > > When we can learn of ancestors
> > > that sailed upon the deep?
> > >
> > > We have priests, Rabbis, lawmen, soldiers,
> > > more than just a few.
> > > And yes, there's many scoundrels,
> > > and a bootlegger or two.
> > >
> > > How can a person find this life
> > > an awful drudge or bore?
> > > When we can live the lives of all
> > > those folks who came before?
> > >
> > > A hundred years from now of course,
> > > no one will ever know
> > > Whether I did laundry,
> > > but they'll see our Tree and glow . . .
> > >
> > > 'Cause their dear old granny left for them,
> > > for all posterity,
> > > not clean hankies and the like,
> > > but a finished family tree.
> > >
> > > My home may be untidy,
> > > 'cause I've better things to do . . .
> > > I'm checking all the records
> > > to provide us with a clue.
> > >
> > > Old great granny's pulling roots
> > > and branches out with glee,
> > > Her clothes ain't hanging out to dry,
> > > she's hung up on the Tree.
> > >
> > > --Mel Oshins
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> >
> >
> > |\ _,,,---,,_
> > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_
> > ______|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ (_____-'________
> > '---''(_/--' `-,\_)
> >
> > Mary D. McCauley, DVM
> > Kenland Maine Coon Cats
> > Maryland and Kentucky Genealogy
> > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6875/
> >
> >

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