From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Sep 11 19:09:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8C197jb030884; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:09:07 -0600 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 k8C18viO014940 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:08:57 -0600 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 k8BMRUFI017206 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:27:30 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8BMRUmc017205 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:27:30 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8BMO1FI017135 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:24:01 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8C156Hj030696 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:05:06 -0600 X-Envelope-From: justrootin@gmail.com Mon Sep 11 19:05:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8C156jb030684 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:05:06 -0600 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8C14xcf010762 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:05:02 -0600 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t4so2097172wxc for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:05:00 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole:from:sender; b=POzs15xwBDjWjLSAMAdtV41VRa58YNoOEN7DOOhZMaeAcIpxDrDSPntm4WkTaveWGJ43Q+RxnW7DmXfBARONnU7Qufp8dwxrSwEuPIFEXJyU+VVTmcH8AJ6NGhHZpisIQa1QcGdilkFq/VEYpMf3b9dOQ+fQJJUseiXTOLbWOAU= Received: by 10.70.129.2 with SMTP id b2mr7087126wxd; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SUZY ( [66.61.158.46]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 29sm2175619wrl.2006.09.11.18.04.57; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <01e801c6d607$6fa4e330$2e9e3d42@SUZY> To: "angela jones" , References: <20060912001059.4467.qmail@web55414.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #396 re: my cousins won't talk to me. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:04:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 From: Suzy McGrew Krol Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 That was nice what you wrote about your aunt, Angela. You've done her proud... Suzy Hugs & Smiles are great gifts: One size fits all & nobody cares if you exchange them! ----- Original Message ----- From: "angela jones" To: Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:10 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #396 re: my cousins won't talk to me. > hi, as a much younger person i failed to respond to my aunt when she was > gathering family information to apply to the family history and genealogy > book that she was in the process of writing at that time. i had all > sorts of reasons for not responding, i worked full time, went to school > full time, and helped my father out with the running of the house. in all > a very busy life. i did not have the time, now looking back i can really > appreciate all the hard work my aunt did to write and share with all of us > ingrates the wonderful result of her work. She traveled to every state on > the mainland us and then to England, Scotland, and Denmark. she has never > used a computer, all of her letters to thousand of relatives were hand > written, direct phone calls, or traveling and having face to face > interviews. through her work, thousands of us have connected and kept up > contact. but for many of those who are shy, or had bad experiences with > those members that use us for their own > pocketbooks, she was often the only connection. she never gave up on > anyone, always hung in there and persisted until they would open up to > her, and through her family updates that would be unknown to the rest of > us have become part of our lives and history. she has become the most > important role model of my adult life. I now work on family genealogy, > mostly through computers and phones and have encountered my fair share of > of the unresponsive, but i learned from my aunt and i keep pitching in > there. good luck with your research. a. Jones> welshangelontwo@yahoo.com > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. >