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From: Virginia Loder <>
Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] who were they?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:50:36 -0800


Have been reading the various posts about feeling the bond with one's ancestor's while researching. I feel certain that they are not as "pouf" gone but are in the next world, waiting for us, preparing a
place for us if you will. And they want their lives and records known here and are in many instances helping us find the needed data. The "veil" between this world and the next gets very thin sometimes.
And is this not something very special that we can get to know those with whom we are forever connected even though they lived before we were even born, how neat to have a greater understanding of who we
are and why we are the way we are. Love it!!

wrote:

> Well said Karen, Gary and Catherine ~~
>
> Traveling back in time started out to be a curiousity at first, like a part
> of me was always missing, now that gap is filling up. And now, everyone is so
> real, so alive in my heart. I understand what you mean about the
> probabilities. I've often thought about that too! What if ~~ a GGGGfather
> hadn't taken that ocean voyage, (I also read about how many ships never made
> it to these shores --100's. That's 1000's of lives that were lost at sea) or
> what if ~~~ a GGG Grandmother hadn't traveled over that mountain range or on
> to the West and run into her future husband?
> My beloved Grandmother passed away from a devastating disease, Pellagra,
> back in 1930--she was never a physical part of my life, but always a part of
> my heart. She was bedridden for the last five years of her life, and passed
> on at the age of 36. Several weeks ago, I was looking through the big Bible
> she had given to my Dad (He said she read it cover to cover twice before she
> died) and found she had tucked little papers in between the pages- songs from
> hymnals, newspaper clippings, receipts from stores, poems, etc. This
> particular day I found a page from McCalls Magazine the March 1929 issue. It
> was of embroidery designs. Then the realization hit me--she had tucked that
> away planning on getting to use the patterns at some future date.(Daddy said
> she loved to sew-before she got sick) Unfortunately, she passed on the
> following year. The article is still lovingly tucked between the pages - just
> as she had placed it. It's the little discoveries that make their lives so
> validated, so real. I am seeking to find out everything I can about the
> person, not just a date for their birth and death. I read a wonderful article
> last year (sorry I can't give the proper credit, cause I can't remember where
> I found it) about how important the "dash" is on a persons tombstone. That
> "dash" between the birth and death dates represent the persons whole life -
> what went on between the beginning and the end. What a great thought. That's
> what I want to find out about, to pass on to those precious Children and
> Grandchildren of ours, that you were talking about.
> It's been through the wonderful lists at Rootsweb and other helpful
> genealogical sites that all of that has become a reality. Such a special
> group of people--these Genealogists- so willing to give and to share and help
> bring our past to life.
>
> Thanks for your comments-our whole alliance must share the same bonding.
>
> Lynda Clear
>
> Digging Up Roots From Pennsylvania
>
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