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From: "Abbie Parrish" <>
Subject: [CAAMADOR-L] genealogy poem
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:48:47 -0500

Genealogist
Why do I search and seek thee out
Down through the years that are gone?
Your voices are still
Your work is done
Yet I yearn to know who you were.

Why do I wonder about your life
In the days that are no more?
Your grave is lost
Your home is gone
yet I yearn to know where you lie.

Why do I wish to preserve the past
A story of family ties?
Your hopes and dreams
Your name passed on
Descendants lost as the years moved on.

Why do I search and seek them out
Wonder and ponder where they went?
probing to trace from whence we stem
A chain long broken I,d like to mend
Fragments in our country,s lore

Why so I yearn to seek thee out
Your deeds. your acts, your way of life?
Dormant for generations gone
You that are dead. I that am
And those that are yet to come.

Why do I search and seek and yearn
For something that,s forever gone?
To give to those who follow me
What gold and riches can never buy
A pride in family, a will to be
Like those who enriched our FAMILY TREE.
--by Anita N. Peters march 1964
enjoy Abigail

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