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Subject: Re: [LKS] Genesconnected and Brickwalls
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:49:49 EST

I too am getting older and until two years ago had not been on a computer let
alone know what you can find on the computer. Other then a brother and one
cousin on my fathers side I have no relatives left that know anything about
my family. My dad died when I was five and we were separated by the
Atlantic Ocean and WW2. Until 1977 I was not able to get to the home land to
talk to anyone and by then those that had any information were all dead.
This computer and the help given by others is the only contact I have with my
ancestors. I have found I have names I have never heard and grandparents I
never knew about. We don't have the money to spend on getting records that
are someone else's so therefore I haven't tried to go on the programs where
others have been having trouble understanding how to get the information. I
started with the naming pattern of my fathers siblings to find my family. I
went to the cemetery to see the graves and could not find them because there
was no sexton there anymore. I didn't have the time to track down the
authorities that could have given me the information on where they are
interred. I have written and have not gotten an answer yet. That has been
well over six months. People are a great help where they can be but you
still have to dig and dig. Let us continue to help one another as we can and
stop going on and on about unimportant things. The information on any
certificate if it is given from the official is not copywitten. The
certificate may be and not able to be copied but the information can be told
and written down. A paragraph in a book can be written by just changing some
words so that it is not exactly the same. These discussions to me just make
it harder for people to know what they can do and cause those that want too
make it harder and to have another way to keep it to themselves. History is
for everyone not just for the one that thinks he is more important . I have
found distant cousins and find that exciting. We will never see one another
but we know we are family. I have nothing against someone publishing a work
that is professional and a complete history of their family but most of us
are just trying to find our roots. Scotland has one of the best systems of
information of anywhere. But then the Scots have always been good in what
is important. We all have brick walls and don't know how to get by them. Let
us help one another and stop fussing . Put on line what can be done and what
can't be done and go from there and get back to the genealogy we are trying
to do. Maybe I am out of line but this is the only method I have to find
anything and someday when I can I am going to put all I have on line for
anyone to use and to add too so that I can find my fathers aunts and uncles
and find out if my great grandmother really was a gypsy princess. One of the
few stories I remember from my youth. I don't know where to go to find that
information but then I just finally got her death information to know where
she died and actually know who her parents were. Well, I have sounded off
enough but like others I enjoy the site and the history that John Duncan puts
on and the stories of growing up that adds to knowing what my father did as a
boy along with all my cousins while we were here in another world with just
the censored letters telling us that they were still alive even though the
Clyde was being bombed. Sorry I am tired I guess.
Kaye

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