From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jan 4 12:55:45 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 k04JtjSK017453; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:55:45 -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 k04JtiTr031452 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:55:44 -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 k04HTJFI011863 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:29:19 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k04HTJGn011862 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:29:19 -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 k04Ge3FI011627 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:40:03 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k04J6IX4021020 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:06:18 -0700 X-Envelope-From: MJBAIER@aol.com Wed Jan 4 12:06:18 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 k04J6ISK021008 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:06:18 -0700 Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k04J6E9K029913 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:06:16 -0700 Received: from MJBAIER@aol.com by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.198.4def0c8d (4552) for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:05:51 -0500 (EST) From: MJBAIER@aol.com Message-ID: <198.4def0c8d.30ed768f@aol.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:05:51 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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] When I started genealogy I started hunting ancestors when I was in my early 20s about 50 years ago. With my mother, I visited her uncle in Wisconsin and he showed me a family Bible with many names entered into it. I copied these and I was off. Mother and I wrote many letters, but received little actual information. Time passed with my marriage and the raising of my children, genealogy was definitely on the back burner. Then Mother died in 1994 and I inherited a mess of newspaper clippings, pictures, and miscellaneous other information and I started to sort things out. Remembering one of my grandmother’s stories, I started searching again looking for her father whom, she said, had died on the way to America and was buried at sea. Turned out this was only one of her many stories that turned out to be completely untrue. Her father died of pneumonia after falling into Lake Winnebago while fishing. I guess the truth wasn’t romantic enough! I’m still at it and have had the most luck with my husband’s mother’s family principally because of her unusual surname. My husband and I have found many cousins who were unknown to him and the adventure has been quite rewarding. Everyone we’ve found has been very nice, very helpful and eager to share with us and by sharing, increase their knowledge of the family. I still have two brick walls (John Glass and August Hanson) which I hope will fall eventually. I regret that my mother wasn’t truly interested in genealogy and didn’t write a whole lot of things down. The Internet and all the sources it has provided has been wonderful, but we still plan little “field trips” to tramp through cemeteries and visit court houses. As you can see, I’m hooked and will continue as long as I’m able. Jane Baier Naperville, IL _mjbaier@aol.com_ (mailto:mjbaier@aol.com)