From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jan 3 12:20:26 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 k03JKQSK007157; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:20:26 -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 k03JKPPs003530 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:20:25 -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 k03GpYFI007607 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:51:34 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k03GpYhq007606 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:51:34 -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 k03GQ4FI007525 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:26:04 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k03IsiWI009420 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:54:44 -0700 X-Envelope-From: ColonialKin@aol.com Tue Jan 3 11:54:44 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 k03IsiSK009407 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:54:44 -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 k03Isjlq019025 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:54:45 -0700 Received: from ColonialKin@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.142.541a92c7 (25711) for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:52:09 -0500 (EST) From: ColonialKin@aol.com Message-ID: <142.541a92c7.30ec21d9@aol.com> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:52:09 EST To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 207 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Getting Started Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com A major health issue, in 1976, forced an early retirement and way too much time on my hands. My mother, already into genealogy, directed me to the Maine Province and Court records in an effort to pique my interest beyond names and dates...and, they certainly were far more interesting than gothic novels, particularly when quite a few in those records were my own ancestors. Like so many, when I finally became interested, I neglected to note my sources (although my mother had admonished me) - and eventually had to go back for the information - including the repository where the records existed. I still prefer to put my collected data into narrative form, citing every single event - as well as including information on the history of the times and area in which they lived. The great part about genealogy is the continual learnng experience it provides as well as knowing the family history is the most important legacy I can leave to my children and grandchildren.