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twilight33The author of the family genealogy website I found on Friday is 78 years old. My guess is she has the help of one or more of her 7 kids with it, but her email to me started with:
What a nice surprise... I was adding some more pictures on your great
grandfather's page and was thinking how nice it would be to get in
touch with his family..... and here you are.
She immediately gave me private family page access to the site which led to far more pictures & stories and closed with so glad you wrote. Believe me, so am I.
My mom & I dug through more boxes of photos that haven't been touched since my grandma died in 1992, and thanks to the website I immediately recognized many that I wouldn't have before Friday. I also found others including one of my great-great grandmother and her 8 sisters with their young families. This is nowhere to be seen on the website, so I'm glad I have something of value to offer her for all she has given me.
As I was driving home from my mom's house with my own little family sound asleep in the car, I thought about how Kieran's the first child on all branches of my direct family to be born outside of northern California since the 1800s. I was the third generation born in Sacramento on one branch, and during the 1800s there were 3 of my ancestors born in northern CA as far back as 1858. No wonder it was such a big deal for me leave the state & start a family up here, CA was more of a homeland than I realized.
Then I thought about various family connections to Washington (my great-great grandfather born near Centralia, for example) & how I've always ended up living where my ancestors have before even when I thought I was going someplace new.
I was pondering what that meant when a 2x4 came flying off from a loaded semi in the right lane in front of and straight at me.
The subsequent braking & swerving woke everyone up quite abruptly, but no damage was done. I'm glad we were north of Everett or we would have been hit by the wood and/or another car if I tried to avoid it since traffic was so thick south of there.
So that's been our weekend. I'm looking forward to a much less eventful trip to Target now.
What a nice surprise... I was adding some more pictures on your great
grandfather's page and was thinking how nice it would be to get in
touch with his family..... and here you are.
She immediately gave me private family page access to the site which led to far more pictures & stories and closed with so glad you wrote. Believe me, so am I.
My mom & I dug through more boxes of photos that haven't been touched since my grandma died in 1992, and thanks to the website I immediately recognized many that I wouldn't have before Friday. I also found others including one of my great-great grandmother and her 8 sisters with their young families. This is nowhere to be seen on the website, so I'm glad I have something of value to offer her for all she has given me.
As I was driving home from my mom's house with my own little family sound asleep in the car, I thought about how Kieran's the first child on all branches of my direct family to be born outside of northern California since the 1800s. I was the third generation born in Sacramento on one branch, and during the 1800s there were 3 of my ancestors born in northern CA as far back as 1858. No wonder it was such a big deal for me leave the state & start a family up here, CA was more of a homeland than I realized.
Then I thought about various family connections to Washington (my great-great grandfather born near Centralia, for example) & how I've always ended up living where my ancestors have before even when I thought I was going someplace new.
I was pondering what that meant when a 2x4 came flying off from a loaded semi in the right lane in front of and straight at me.
The subsequent braking & swerving woke everyone up quite abruptly, but no damage was done. I'm glad we were north of Everett or we would have been hit by the wood and/or another car if I tried to avoid it since traffic was so thick south of there.
So that's been our weekend. I'm looking forward to a much less eventful trip to Target now.
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Date: 2004-09-06 05:07 pm (UTC)take care,
carrie
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-14 06:43 pm (UTC)