From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 13:52:11 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k01KqBg3017820; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:52:11 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01KqA2u017716 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:52:10 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k01IPuFI030884 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:25:56 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01IPu5B030883 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:25:56 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k01IN6FI030824 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:23:06 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k01KnA0G016558 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:49:10 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Pjpeters2@aol.com Sun Jan 1 13:49:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k01KnAg3016547 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:49:10 -0700 Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com (imo-d20.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.136]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01Kn8s4016408 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:49:09 -0700 Received: from Pjpeters2@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.290.34ddb70 (4328) for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: Pjpeters2@aol.com Message-ID: <290.34ddb70.30e99a37@aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:48:55 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5300 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] My research began... Actually I can't remember what age I was when I started! I just know why...my father was almost 60 years old (born 1876) when I was born (my mother was 24), a divorce followed & I was only allowed weekends & summers with my father until I was about 13 & moved in with him. I idolized him, as a child he would sit me in his lap, light an oil lamp & tell me the most wonderful stories, but I lost him when I was only 17, before I thought to actually find out about his parents, etc. I knew of his older brothers & sisters & even met a couple, and so I had some names to refer back to. I had brothers & sister over 30 years older than me, but for some reason, which I didn't understand back then, they didn't consider me a sister! After being married quite a few years tho I finally started trying to find out more about my father. I found a couple of letters in his belongs which were so interesting. I mailed for death certs, social security applications, over the years wrote to any remaining family, and then finally just a little over 3 years ago I got a computer. My whole life of researching opened up to me at that point. For the last 12 years I have been caring for my husbands mother who is an invalid with sever senile dementia, who will be 104 years old this coming July. We are rather housebound the further along she goes and the computer has been a fantastic source of opening a whole new chance for me to find out more about my father and all my family lines. I must admit I am really addicted to it now, certainly not as smart as so many of the researchers that I read here online, but slowly getting there. I have met some wonderful people thru my researching and a few that weren't, but that's life! I want so much to leave all that I can find to my 4 children, 11 grandchildren and 14 greats. Sites like this are a blessing, as are all the wonderful people who have helped me. My hat is off to you all & best wishes in your own quest! Peggy Williams Peterson