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From: "Diane" <>
Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT-L] The Story Tellers
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 05:50:38 -0500
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Gale
My condolences. My prayers are with you.
Diane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gale Nash" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:24 AM
Subject: [ILHAMILT-L] The Story Tellers


> Thank you for this ... my mom passed away about an hour ago. She helped
me
> in gathering names for my genealogy.
>
> Virginia Arelene (Heckathorn) Carper
> Born October 26, 1920 Kansas City, MO
> Died December 3, 2004 Denver, CO
>
> I will miss her..
>
> Gale Prince Nash
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John & Sandra Brandt" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:58 AM
> Subject: [ILHAMILT-L] In memory of Misty...
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > The Story Tellers.....
> >
> > We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family
> > there is one who seems called to find the ancestors.
> > To put flesh on their bones and make them live
> > again, to tell the family story and to feel that
> > somehow they know and approve. To me, doing
> > genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but,
> > instead, breathing life into all who have gone
> > before.
> >
> > We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have
> > one. We have been called as it were by our genes.
> > Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell
> > our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow
> > find ourselves.
> >
> > How many graves have I stood before now and
> > cried? I have lost count. How many times have I
> > told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you
> > would be proud of us?
> >
> > How many times have I walked up to a grave and
> > felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot
> > say.
> >
> > It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to
> > who am I and why do I do the things I do? It goes
> > to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to
> > weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this
> > happen.
> >
> > The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh
> > of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it.
> > It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able
> > to accomplish. How they contributed to what we
> > are today. It goes to respecting their hardships
> > and losses, their never giving in or giving up,
> > their resoluteness to go on and build a life for
> > their family.
> >
> > It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and
> > keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense
> > understanding that they were doing it for us.
> >
> > That we might be born who we are. That we might
> > remember them. So we do. With love and caring
> > and scribing each fact of their existence, because
> > we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called,
> >
> > I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one
> > called in the next generation to answer the call
> > and take their place in the long line of family
> > storytellers.
> >
> > That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that
> > is what calls those young and old to step up and
> > put flesh on the bones.
> >
> > ( Unknown Author )
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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