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It Is Not Easy and Smooth as Gravy! |
Last week I really felt I was going in the right direction with life. I read the scriptures, I pray, I am anxiously engaged in trying so hard to do good...that I even wrote a poem describing my feelings. The path is beautiful, but the rough bark is there along my trail, I just tripped-over it and I'm dazed. My head just isn't going to work on another family group sheep.
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SHEET!
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Family Group and Pedigree Sheets
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I shouldn't even posting a comment all about this genealogy work because I don't want to discourage anyone from not trying to find their ancestors. When it's good it's very, very good and when it's bad, it is horrid. My backaches and I think need stronger glasses. Or...I need to do this very early in the morning when my mind is a lot more unhindered or better yet, the fog that fills my head just opens up to the "ta-da" moment.
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Me..Susan Kay Wellman Lazenby |
Why, oh why, do people hook their names into my names? We aren't related or are we? Do I have THAT many more aunts and uncles? Of course, my favorite peeve is the change in the spelling or adding a different middle name. The topping is when all the really old people in the family all have different opinions about who was married to whom or where the great-great grandfather was born, or lived, or even where each are buried. I am finding so many loose ends. I haven't hit any brick walls that everyone talks about, it's the accuracy that really concerns me.
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My Grandmother Never Owned A Saloon! Get That? |
My load seems lifted as I attended Sunday School, today. All will be made right in the Millennium or in heaven. Whew! I knew that, but I needed that reassurance and still I'm OCD about having what I put on-line in my gedcom. I want to have given my work on my ancestors the best I can provide. Oh dear, meeting my grandmother on the "other-side" and find she was married to her brother-in-law, would literally "frost" her. Yes, someone did do that with her name--it wasn't my hand that did it. I'm not upset, just seeing these mistakes, make me realize how easy it is to pile names in and the work, goes on.
I just love that so many of my ancestors were sentimental and close enough to their family, that they often named their new babies after a beloved grandmother, grandfather, aunt, or uncle. That really leaves for every genealogist, novice or professional, a wonderful guide and precious clue that the family is the right line to follow.
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My Mother & Dad Both Have Names Of Ancestors |
Maybe it's my job to be the fixer, to prune my large family tree, and place some buds here and there that belong. My tree will be ready and I know it'll really grow and thrive.
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Tree from Chatham Games Web Site |
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