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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Finding Ourselves!

Shirley,

So beautifully said.  This is what all of us are about.  Thank you.

Cindy Johnson
McINTIRE/DeMERRITT/PLAISTED/TASH
MARTIN/ and...!




<<That's what genealogy is all about.  Not names, dates, and places, but 
their
place in history.
How they were affected by international, national, state, regional, local
events and how they affected those same events.  Plus, their own joys and
sorrows, successes and failures, needs and wants.
It's called Fleshing the Bones of our dead ancestors, making them come 
alive
to us and anyone we can tell about them.  You have the wonderful 
opportunity
of learning about history now, what happened when, where, why and to  your
relatives, the who.
History at one time noted only the famous or infamous.  Now we  genealogists
are able to place our own family members in the same famous  events.
Some years ago I mentioned that I'd read my (hoped for) ROPER was one  of
those at the Battle of Hastings.  A British genealogist informed me he  was 
NOT
on list of Generals serving under William of Normandy.  Gee whiz, I  asked 
him,
did the generals fight the battle all by themselves or did they  have an 
army
behind them?  Could my Roper have been a sailor who helped  those famous
generals get across the water?  Or perhaps even an admiral or  maybe, just 
maybe,
the poor kid who got hooked into slopping the jars.   However he got there, 
he
got there.
Just as a later one (Maynard) was hanged from Old Baily for uttering a 
royal
check in the early 1800's.  A Jacobian (Hasty) was deported as a  traitor.
Another (Maynard) was cast out by Oliver Cromwell and  emigrated to the new
world.  An Abraham was killed by natives while guiding  Quakers over the
mountains.  A Williams was shot through the breast while  defending Atlanta. 
A Moore
was captured but escaped  while being sent to Andersonville.

Our ancestors bled, suffered, and some died for these events and on  those
battlefields.  They deserve more than just a headcount figure in  the 
history
books.  That is why I work so hard to get all my relatives'  military 
records
and even Black Sheep records to place in the family  tree.  Their 
experiences
colored their lives.  And eventually,  mine.

Welcome to the grand experience of finding yourself.>>

Shirley Maynard
Hampton, VA