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From: "Jen in AZ" <>
Subject: Fw: [NYALBANY] I Want
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:58:44 -0700

I think I would be doing well to get the last one!!
Jen in AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Bolster-Barrett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 9:22 AM
Subject: [NYALBANY] I Want


> This was on another list that subscribe to. I thought everyone would enjoy
it!
> Barb :)
> - -------------------------------------------------------
>
> I Want
>
> I want ancestors with names like Rudy Montagnard or Mechiznick Von Steuben
> or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not Mary Smith or William Johnson.
>
> I want ancestors who went to school, could read and write, purchased land,
> left detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their
> photographs taken once a year - subsequently putting said pictures in
> elaborate acid free albums with names, dates, and places.
>
> I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established,
> still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries, with carved voluble and informative
> inscriptions on their headstones.
>
> I want family members who wrote memoirs, kept diaries, enlisted in the
> military, particularly officers who served in strategically important (and
> well documented) skirmishes.
>
> I want relatives who served as Congressional members, judges, councilmen,
> school teachers, county clerks, police officers, firefighters.
>
> I want relatives who had their children baptized in recognized houses of
> worship, "religiously" wrote in the family Bible, recording every little
> event and detailing the familial relationship of every visitor.
>
> I want immigrant progenitors to have arrived only in those years wherein
> passenger lists were indexed by the National Archives, to have applied for
> citizenship in those jurisdictions which have since established indices.
>
> I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, joined every patrimonial
> society, kept journals, listed all their addresses, dated every piece of
> paper they touched and had paintings made of their houses.
>
> I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and keep for
> generations, the tribal homestead and left all the aforementioned
pictures,
> diaries and journals in the library.
>
> But most of all I want relatives I can FIND!
>
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