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From: Francisco Antonio Doria <>
Subject: Re: Age Survey and Question to Leo van de Pas
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:45:10 -0300 (ART)
In-Reply-To: <1c74a9e5.0408110301.c2a513b@posting.google.com>


In my case I was fascinated since a very early age
(I'm 58) by the tales my father used to tell about the
Acciaioli, my paternal gmother's family (they used to
say that the Doria were just a bunch of sugarcane
planters from Bahia - one of our states - and before
that pirates; the description is an apt one). One of
our elder cousins then gave me the volume of Moreri's
Dictionnaire - a huge book, I still remember it - with
lots of Acciaioli bios. My relatives had a good deal
of the later family generations in their memories, and
so it was somewhat easy to collect it.

My mother's family also had their memories, down from
the legend of the rape (we weren't told of that part)
of the princess of Armenia by Dom Mendo Alam de
Bragança in the 11th century. Their genealogy was
well-known, since it was a family of great influence
in Brazilian politics - a president of the republic,
several cabinet ministers, state governors - in the
late 19th century and early 20th century. (Now this is
all gone.)

fa

--- marshall kirk <> escreveu:
> I'm 46, but became interested in genealogy at 12,
> primarily because
> I'd seen pedigree charts in history books, and
> wondered what such a
> chart of my own family would look like. I quizzed
> my mother
> searchingly and unmercifully (my father knew little
> about his
> relatives), and charted the results. Hearing of
> this, a first cousin
> once removed (then about 70) sent me a good deal of
> material about our
> shared ancestry back to colonial days. That the
> ancestry of ordinary
> folks like us could be traced so far was a
> revelation to me.
> Unfortunately, I lived in a rural town in Maine, was
> poor, and had no
> access to the materials necessary to do my own
> research, so the
> interest died on the vine.----Or rather, the seed
> lay dormant. At 32,
> as I was skimming through a copy of *Atlantic*
> magazine, my eye fell
> on a sidebar (featuring a photo of Gary Boyd
> Roberts) about NEHGS.
> Although I'd lived in Boston for 14 years, I'd had
> no idea there was a
> genealogical library in town. I went in 'for an
> afternoon' to 'look
> up my ancestry,' and was permanently hooked. Within
> a year, I was
> working there.
>
> Our patrons were of all ages from teens to eighties;
> the distribution
> was rather flat between, say, 30 and 70, with some
> bias -- due
> largely, I think, to the availability of free time
> -- toward older
> folks. These, of course, were the people who
> actually came in;
> whether the age-distribution of members who didn't
> come to the library
> was similar, I couldn't say.
>
>
> "family history" <X@X.com> wrote in message
> news:<WiaSc.1793$>...
> > Just read that Kevin Hearst is only is 20. I' m in
> my early twenties, and
> > have been interested in genealogy since the age of
> 17 or so. Just
> > wondering, since a lot of people on here (from
> what I have gathered) are a
> > bit older, and not knowing a lot of people in
> their twenties interested in
> > the matter: do you think that genealogy is a
> science practiced only by old
> > age pensioners?
> >
> >
> > On a side note: Leo van de Pas; I noticed that I
> am registered in your
> > database (nice webpage by the way, well done). I
> don't really care being
> > mentionned there (although i'm not really
> comfortable with it either) , but
> > isn't it illegal to publish the data of people who
> are still alive?
>
>





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