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From: "Doreen & Peter Neilley" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:04:18 -0700
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Dear Kevin,
Thanks for this - I will do so. Only just replied now because I got sooo far
behind in cleaning up my TMG postings folder!
Doreen Neilley, Alberta, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Sholder" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy


> --taken from a series of messages posted by Shirley Maynard of Hampton,
VA,
> between 4-16-93 and 6-2-93 to the National Genealogy Conference on FIDONET
> [electronic bulletin board service]. Collected and edited by Wally
> Garchow--
>
> http://www.calweb.com/~wally/
>
> Looks like you need to ask Wally
>
> Found the following as well:
>
> http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9708news/flesh.htm.en
>
> http://www.geocities.com/solarstorms1/Fleshing_Out_The_Bones.html
>
> http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/523/cu2.htm
>
> http://ebydesigns.com/why-gen.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doreen & Peter Neilley [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:19 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy
>
> Dear Cheri,
> I help to write a newsletter for my local genealogy group. I would like
> permission to include this in a future edition. May I have your
permission,
> please?
> Thanks in advance,
> Doreen Neilley (Alberta Genealogical Society - Draytin Valley Branch)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheri Casper" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 11:31 PM
> Subject: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy
>
>
> > I collect sayings about ancestors, genealogy and the like. Tonight as
> > I
> was
> > adding this one to my on-going list, I thought some of you might be
> > interested in it.
> >
> > *********
> > Fleshing Out the Bones: Why I Do Genealogy
> >
> > We are the chosen. My feelings are that 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 those who went before know and approve.
> >
> > To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead,
> > breathing life into all who have gone before.
> >
> > We are the storytellers 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 my 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 I am, 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 they fought to make and keep us a nation.
> > It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it
> > for us, 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 them and they are us.
> >
> > I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the
> > next generation to answer the call and take their 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 put flesh on the bones.
> >
> > -- Anonymous
> >
> >
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