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Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:03:15 EST


Some years ago I put together a family type history for a grand daughter and
I wrote the following foreword to that book to try to explain why she should
have an interest in family.

Science teaches us that every part of our bodies and minds has been
programmed from the genes given to us by our parents at the moment of conception. We
are, in body and mind, the product of these genes. It is important to note and
remember that characteristics of our parents are not themselves inherited, but
that each of our parents gives us tiny physical bits of themselves, which
carry the genes that determine our characteristics. These very real bits of our
parents, combine to form a single cell which then replicates to form all the
rest of the cells of our bodies. Thus, we grow to adults with every part of us
predetermined by these tiny physical pieces of our parents. Of course, the
process follows that our parents are each the product of the genes given to them by
their parents and the process goes on back through the generations to
whomever preceded each of us.
Thus, you, Young Tyler, have in your body, not just inherited
characteristics, but very real physical body parts, called genes, passed to you from
Charles Tyler, who lived in Virginia in the 1600s, from William Cash, who came
from Scotland to live in Virginia in the 1600s, from Peter Gottfried Mueller, who
was born in Solingen, Germany in 1758, from William Sorrell, born in 1730 in
Virginia, Joseph Mellor from Yorkshire in England in the 1700s and many, many
others even more long ago. These people are never totally dead as a very real
part of them still exists in you.
This book, by letting you get acquainted with some of the people who are in
it, hopefully may contribute in some small way in you getting to know
yourself.
Appreciate these people, each and every one of them, because they, in sum,
are you.- Dale

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