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After frightening brushes with three hurricanes in the Fall of 2005, I resolved to scan every one of the old photographs that have been sitting under my bed for nearly 20 years now. Also about 100 years of correspondence. At the rate I'm going, I may be quite old before finishing the task. As I'm the only person in my family who probably has any knowledge about these people, it will be lost forever if I don't record it. It makes me so sad to read "found in $1.00 bin" next to a flickr photo. I'm so glad that photo got rescued from oblivion, but how sad someone's family member ended up in an old photo bin at an antique mall. This is my effort to keep that from happening to as many of my forebears as possible. It is also my attempt to atone for not having made a "Baby Book" for my daughter. Perhaps this will serve the same purpose, as well as introduce her and her cousins to family they never knew, but who would have loved them if they had lived long enough to meet them. Do many people start to get interested in genealogy in their late middle age years? My mother did! She'd say "If I make it to heaven, I certainly want to be able to recognize my relatives and have something to talk about with them." She died way too young at 54 (cigarettes did it) when I was 30, and I miss her still. She would have LOVED the internet, being able to research online, google search for information. If it is possible for ancestors to keep an eye on their progeny from the afterlife, I do so hope she knows I'm enjoying all this for her.
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