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From: "Melissa L. Goetz" <>
Subject: [OHBROWN] I Want
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:04:57 -0600


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I thought everyone might enjoy this!

Melissa in WI

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To: "Kathy Anderson" <>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:11:08 -0600
Subject: I Want
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=20

I Want=20

I want ancestors with names like Rudy Montagnard or Mechiznick Von =
Steuben=20
or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not Mary Smith or William Johnson.=20

I want ancestors who went to school, could read and write, purchased =
land,
left detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had =
their
photographs taken once a year - subsequently putting said pictures in
elaborate acid free albums with names, dates, and places.=20

I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established,
still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries, with carved voluble and =
informative
inscriptions on their headstones.=20

I want family members who wrote memoirs, kept diaries, enlisted in the=20
military, particularly officers who served in strategically important =
(and
well documented) skirmishes.=20

I want relatives who served as Congressional members, judges, =
councilmen,
school teachers, county clerks, police officers, firefighters.=20

I want relatives who had their children baptized in recognized houses =
of=20
worship, "religiously" wrote in the family Bible, recording every little
event and detailing the familial relationship of e

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