From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jan 2 21:28:26 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 k034SQg3007837; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:28:26 -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 k034SPdY001993 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:28:25 -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 k03227FI005229 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:02:07 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k032275q005228 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:02:07 -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 k031j3FI005144 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:45:03 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k034BCsC029789 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:12 -0700 X-Envelope-From: pament@kci.net Mon Jan 2 21:11:11 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 k034BBg3029778 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:11 -0700 Received: from mail2.kci.net (mail2.kci.net [64.187.64.10]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k034BAr0026382 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.kci.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F3D55293 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail2.kci.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 28266-62 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from oemcomputer (63-163-136-77.iprev.kci.net [63.163.136.77]) by mail2.kci.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C3185528D for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:11 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <013401c6101b$c922cba0$4d88a33f@kci.net> From: "patty" To: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:11:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mail2 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] How old were you? I married into a Germans from Russia family over forty years ago. For the first thirty years, I constantly heard from my father-in-law about how hard it had been for his parents to leave the old country and move to America in 1912, how the women worked in the house and worked in the fields, sometimes with ice on the hem of their dress. Finally, one day, it occurred to me that I might have ancestors, too. I started at our local LDS church, and the folks there were wonderful to help me find my first information. I have done computer research for about 8 years now, have had the opportunity to visit ancestral homes, meet relatives that I didn't know existed, and am constantly astonished at all the documentation available. I'm far from finished, but I was able to tell my father-in-law that when his parents arrived in 1912, my ancestors had been here for almost 300 years. So, I guess it was his fault that I have succumbed to the genealogy fever and will never be well again. ! Happy New Genealogy Year. Patty in Colorado