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Subject: [PAFRANKL] [Fwd: [PACUMBER-L] Genealogist's Lament]
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:38:21 -0700


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Hi Folks:

Just thought you might enjoy and appreciate this poem. I know I
certainly did!!!Donna Heller Zinn of Cumberland Co., PA.

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A wonderful monk in New England just sent us this... now here is the reason
why we are all having such a difficult time finding our ancestors <grin>

Enjoy .... Kelly James & Maria Lamberton

THE ELUSIVE ANCESTOR
>
> I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him
> still.
> He moved around from place to place and did not
> leave a will.
> He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all
> his fences.
> He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census.
>
> He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had
> no fame.
> And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his
> name.
> His parents came from Europe. They should be upon
> some list
> of passengers to U.S.A., but somehow they got
> missed.
>
> And no one else in this world is searching for this
> man.
> So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can.
> I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he
> was blessed;
> but the weather took engraving, and some vandals
> took the rest.
>
> He died before the county clerks decided to keep
> records.
> No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my
> efforts.
> To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many
> groans,
> Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl
> named JONES.
>
> by Merrell Kenworthy
>
>
>
>


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