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From: "CMINMICHIGAN" <>
Subject: RE: [MI-Genealogy] : THE CHOSEN
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:15:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <040620062327.17879.4435A3CF000B5064000045D722070215539D0A9B08099A0E0B9B9C0A0B040A@comcast.net>


Thank you...I will add that before I send it to anyone else. Carrol in
Michigan

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It was written by Bob Dunn aka "The Storyteller" of Houston, Texas



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From: "CMINMICHIGAN" <>

> I'll second that...I wish we knew who wrote it so that we could give them
> credit.
>
> Carrol in Michigan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue Long [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 5:57 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MI-Genealogy] : THE CHOSEN
>
>
> Pat; that is beautiful. Exactly how I feel, and in my family I am pretty
> much a party of one for documenting the past. So sad...
>
>
>
> Subject: [MI-Genealogy] : THE CHOSEN
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> THE CHOSEN
>
> We are the chosen. 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.
>
> 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 the fathers fought and some died to make
> and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense
> understanding
> that they were doing it for us.
>
> It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us
> birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as
> far back as we can reach. 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 they and they are the sum of who we are. 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 my 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 restore the memory or greet those
> whom we
> had never known before.
>
> (unknown author)
>
>
>
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