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From: "GordonHofstra" <>
Subject: Re: ancestors
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:41:47 -0600


Hip! Hip! Huray! I agree. When I look back and read about the hardships
that were daily living for my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother I am
in awe of their stamina, courage, determination, wisdom, sense of right and
wrong, strong faith , and lots of guts. These women didn't have to talk
about "girl power" they lived it every day. I can't even imagine life
before their time. I am not dismissing men and their hard life. I know
their lives were just as tough. I'm just thinking of the women who have
helped shape me. I'll bet that if I could go back in time and talk with any
one of them now they would reflect on the good and beautiful times, and not
count it as a hardship. God bless them everyone.
Barbara

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From: JANE STRICKLAND <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 4:48 PM
Subject: ancestors

>in all the talk about intermarriages, remember, there was very little
"easy"
>travel not so long ago. Any of you remember "pre-interstate" travel, on 2
>lane roads, that weren't always paved? Folk married who they could find
>nearby, and that might be a cousin. (I read somewhere on another list that
>spouses usually came from a 5 mile radius.)
> Another thing to remember is that natural selection will take the weak and
>leave the strong, that's not a judgement, it's a fact of life; in past
>times, sometimes even the strong didn't make it. We are the survivors of
>years of unsanitary conditions, non -exitstant medical knowledge, and no
>anitbiotics Good genes are passed along, not just the ones for mental
>illness, diabetes, and and other "bad" herediatry factors.
>I think our ancestors did very well with what they had to do with, and it's
>very easy to look back from our position of world communications, TV,
radio,
>and find it hard to believe they "didn't know any better".
>The Titanic sank in view of another ship, less than a hundred years ago.
>The folk on that ship thought the explosions were fireworks. There was no
>interest in listening for the "SOS" until after that awful tragedy.
>Let's be glad that we have the knowledge and tools that we do have, and
>proud to be the descendants of a tough bunch of pioneers!
>
>

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