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Subject: [ILCLINTO] Ain't it the TRUTH!
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:17:06 EDT


Got this from another list, and just had to share it with the list. I'd
think everyone of us can relate!

MY ELUSIVE ANCESTOR
>> :
>> : I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still.
>> : He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will.
>> : He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences.
>> : He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census.
>> :
>> : He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame.
>> : And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name.
>> : His parents came from Europe. They should be upon some list
>> : of passengers to U.S.A., but somehow they got missed.
>> :
>> : And no one else in this world is searching for this man.
>> : So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can.
>> : I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed;
>> : but the weather took engraving, and some vandals took the rest.
>> :
>> : He died before the county clerks decided to keep records.
>> : No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts.
>> : To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many groans,
>> : Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES.
>> :
>> : by Merrell Kenworthy

Laura in rainsoaked Florida

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