From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jan 3 18:56:31 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 k041uVSK015814; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:56:31 -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 k041uB9K008964 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:56:11 -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 k03NTnFI008543 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:29:49 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k03NTn8w008542 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:29:49 -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 k03LmIFI008324 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:48:18 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k040H0eJ020990 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:17:00 -0700 X-Envelope-From: grane24@sbcglobal.net Tue Jan 3 17:17:00 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 k040H0SK020976 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:17:00 -0700 Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.203]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k040Gxa8014037 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:16:59 -0700 Received: (qmail 60943 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2006 00:14:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n1y5j4) (grane24@sbcglobal.net@64.217.16.55 with login) by smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2006 00:14:24 -0000 Message-ID: <001501c610c4$02a5e9e0$6401a8c0@domainnotset.invalid> From: "Shirley Love" To: Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:15:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 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] Starting the search! I was just a youngster when I started looking for my ancestors....if you consider a second childhood as "young!" When I was in my mid-sixties, my aunt asked me if I had a good photo of my grandmother that she could borrow to make copies for all her children. I had inherited a trunk filled with photos and family papers from my parents, and when I searched for a good pic of Grandma, I ran across hundreds of other old, old, photos....and sorry to say, most of them were not identified. I decided to try to rectify that situation so that my own children would not run into the same problem. Now, as I settle into my 70's, I have successfully identified many of them, but regretfully most are, and always will be, unknowns. Researching my ancestors turned out to be such a windfall of fantastic information and such a delightful way to spend my time that I have completed a book about my father's family and am currently working on my husband's as well as my mother's. You can be delightfully surprised by the heroic as well as the cowardly; the memorable as well as the not too impressive; and the lovable as well as the cantankerous people in your lineage. Thank God for all those helpful genealogists. They are great people! I cannot think of a better way to spend my senior years, but I wish I had started much earlier. Shirley Love