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From: "Elizabeth Chancellor" <>
Subject: Re: Age Survey
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:04:58 -0400
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Right there with you, James. I, too, began genealogy at a young age. I
am now 36, but began going to genealogical libraries and the National
Archives and learning how to research at the ripe old age of 10. My
aunt is a professional genealogists and my mother has been a serious
researcher for the past 40 years, so it seemed natural for me to fall
into genealogy as a serious hobby. As a full-time middle school band
director I find my time to research is seriously limited, but I find
researching a challenge and stimulating. I don't think my daughter
(age 13) will fall into my footsteps where research is concerned--too
much of a social butterfly--but at least I can try and instill in her
the importance of family and how tracing your roots can bring history
alive.

Elizabeth Chancellor
http://www.chancellorfamily.org

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Age Survey and Question to Leo van de Pas


> Dear Newsgroup,
> I`m 44 and grew up in a household where
the names
> of each of my great grandparents, several great great grandparents
and a
> number of cousins were known on both sides. No, my Grandparents and
Parents were
> not particularly into digging into their roots or going to big
family
> reunions dueing my childhood, but there were the family stories and
We always went
> to some of the cemeteries to decorate the graves around Memorial
Day. About
> the age of seven or eight I got acquainted with King Richard I of
England and
> the nasty spineless brother Prince ( Later King) John. When I was
about 12 or
> 13 an elderly cousin gave us a number of items belonging to a
couple of my
> 2nd Great Grandparents, thhen when I was 14 another cousin gave my
grandmother
> a copy of Arthur S Boyd`s genealogy and I started to get really
interested.
> Sincerely,
> James W Cummings
> Dixmont, Maine
USA
>
>

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