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From: June Ridsdale <>
Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] Sharing the good times [in genealogy!]
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 09:46:59 -0700
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Thank you Rose for your nice comments. I'm so sorry that you and your
siblinges are not close. I had no siblings but I have four children who
just
love to get togther. And are a barrel of laughs then they do.
Geographically they are not close but in reality are best freinds.

You have just given me an idea that I absolutely must explain to you!
I think I will make a file up of tiny bits of such memories that get posted.
While they do not pertain to my family it does give us a real 'feel' for
these
dear ancestors that we find out about. Everytime anyone [and this
includes 3 of my 4 kids] questions why
I would want to dig up the names of so many dead people, I tell them it
is more than that. It is the things we find out about them that are so
personal; and to me it is even more about locating real live cousins all
over
the world. Even 8th cousins! Many people do not even know who their
1st cousins are these days. I have SO many now!

Your little bit of family lore here reminds me of a snippet of info I
picked up from a family member.

In that family of the CROCKETTS [that I have just located who
really did live in BARNSLEY after all] the eldest child in that
family was Sarah, my maternal granny. She died in 1915
a few years before I was born. Grandpa remarried a woman who
had 14 [grown-up] children and apparently she had a very mean
disposition . When grandpa was very ill with asthma and the doctor
came to visit, he would request that the flowers beside the bed be
removed to help Grandpa breathe better. Apparently she complied,
but as soon as the doc left she put them back beside him! Grandpa
died when I was about 5 and I have no memory of him at all.

Another little snippet that is actually funny though not to Grandpa,
at Hallowe'en he decided that no one was going to turn his outhouse over
because he was going to stay in it all night and prevent such a happening!
The normal night pranskters that loved to do such things, tipped it over
with grandpa in it and he could not get out for some time. I have never
been told what condition he was in, but he did get out.

Do any of you have any little snippets of things in your memory bank?
Why not share those with us? These ancestors had real personalities
and it helps us to understand bygone generations. A few pages of such
things inserted in a family history could be of great interest to anyone
reading your history in the years to come. I'm 'gonna' start saving them
as of now!
Rose, thank you for your memory! I enjoyed it.
Kindest regards to everyone,
June

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Brunais" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] Sharing the good times [in genealogy!]


> Some of these finds and stories are really what keep us going. The fact
> that these are for the most part family members of ours makes them even
more
> important to us. Some of these stories are happy ones and some not so
> happy. I have not been looking nearly as long as you have, June, and I
> admire your patience and perseverence. As well as others who have made
this
> a lifetime search.
> I recently found my father's line back to 1822 in Scotland thanks to a
post
> made by a then unknown cousin. They were asking about my branch of the
> family that they were totally stumped on. I was able to give them names,
> dates and other information they were unaware of. What they told me that
I
> didn't know was that my great-grandfather and his brother were very close
> and that when my great-grandfather died at an early age (27) from measles
> and spiral meningitis, his brother was known for years afterward to be
seen
> at his grave weeping. This is a very sad story, and that it happened to
my
> great-grandfather makes it even more sad, but an important part of who I
am.
> My brothers and I are not close at all and that these two members of our
> family were so close greatly affects me. Sometimes we find a lot more
than
> we ever imagined in our searches. Rose


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