In praise of grandmas

[twilight33]

If my grandmas were still alive today, I know they'd have wanted actual (not email) pictures from graduation to share with their friends and all those degrees of cousins and great aunts & uncles you never see much of.

Then, there's my grandma's 79-year-old cousin, whose website I found last year by Googling the name of the town in Germany where my great-great-great grandmother was born.

She took the jpgs I sent her (including the one of our 3 generations by the university library sign with our common name connection on it for fun), asked me to write about graduation & my college education story starting back at SSU, made a graduation webpage about me to include on the huge family/genealogy site, then emailed hundreds of various degrees of cousins on the family email list the URL.

I still have to help my mom navigate email sometimes.

Comments

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

that is cool that she did that. :) wow. :)

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

That is cool, but, uhm, aren't you going to share the URL so we can check out the site?

[twilight33]

No, because it's a password-protected site just for the clan :) In general, there aren't public websites with genealogy information on people who are still living due to privacy & fraud concerns.