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this came from a mail group i am in from somerset/bristol england...thought
i'd pass it along...thought it really applied...enjoy...and good luck....Liz

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Hello folks

Yvonne very kindly passed the following to me which she came across on a
chat line. Now, if only .............

Thanks Yvonne!

Genealogy Humor
"I Want"
*By Barbara A. Brown

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yep -- I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or
Melchizedick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Gianfortoni,
not William Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott.

I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children
baptized in recognized houses of worship, went to school,
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 isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic
inscriptions, and
carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones. I
want relatives
who managed to bury their predecessors in established,
still-extant (and indexed)
cemeteries.

I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the
military as officers and who served in strategically important
(and well documented)
skirmishes. I want relatives who served as councilmen,
schoolteachers,
county clerks and town historians. I want relatives who
'religiously' wrote in the
family Bible, journaling every little event and detailing the
familial relationship of every
visitor.

In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to have arrived
only in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by
National Archives,
and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to have done
so only in those
jurisdictions which have since established indices.

I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who joined every
patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and listed
all their
addresses, who had paintings made of their horses, and who dated
every piece
of paper they touched. I want forebears who were wealthy enough to

afford, and to keep for generations, the tribal homestead, and who
left
all the aforementioned pictures and diaries and journals intact in
the library.

But most of all, I want relatives I can find!!!

Barbara A. Brown

* Ms. Brown's "I Want" article was originally posted in 1994 to
the
National Genealogical
Conference, FIDO bulletin board forum.

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