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From: "Wilma Ranger" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Newbie Discouragement
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:52:09 -0700
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Some of us are very lucky, Our parents or family were into this stuff. I
did not inherit the info, but when I retired it was what I would do. Fun,
meet the nicest people (relatives) and a big family tree.
Wilma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay Martin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Newbie Discouragement


> Ah but Gary, it nearly is! My Grandmother started into this hobby in 1933
when her mother died and she found from letters in her mother's possession
that we have ourselves a mystery (still have it!). My mother too has always
been interested, and now I've been at it seriously for 23 years. In about
1986 I bought my first computer and by about 1990 had started using the
BBS's and made contacts with other genealogist who I then exchanged with via
snail mail. My Mom exclaimed years ago that I'd found more on our families
than she had in all the years she had been working on research. And here we
are, 13 years later, and we have much better computer services, huge amounts
of data on line, and now DNA (see Ann, I'm not totally off topic <g>). When
we get stuck on a brickwall or are just learning some new trick like DNA, it
does seem to take patience, but looking back over the time we've been on
line, doesn't it look more like a whirlwind? Admittedly, that "instant
gratification" i!
> s more a hindsight thing.
>
> Kay
>
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> >>It's unfortunate that the TV advertising of Genealogy.com gives people
the impression that doing genealogy online leads to instant gratification.
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