http://thiseclecticlife.com/2009/09/11/only-the-good-tracing-family-history/ Sassy Texas Storyteller Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:08:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thiseclecticlife.com/2009/09/11/only-the-good-tracing-family-history/comment-page-1/#comment-21645 RV Poetry Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:11:56 +0000 http://thiseclecticlife.com/?p=9871#comment-21645 [...] out what Shelly discovered about family history, it is really strange, as I checked a bit of mine in recent months. Add your [...] [...] out what Shelly discovered about family history, it is really strange, as I checked a bit of mine in recent months. Add your [...]

]]> http://thiseclecticlife.com/2009/09/11/only-the-good-tracing-family-history/comment-page-1/#comment-21644 Jeni Hill Ertmer Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:05:41 +0000 http://thiseclecticlife.com/?p=9871#comment-21644 Family Tree stuff was one of my main considerations when I first started my blog. My idea was that by putting various bits of information about our family into posts on my blog along with self-disclosure -how my weird mind works at times -would leave a bit of a record for my children but even more so, for my grandchildren when I am no longer with them or able to converse semi-intelligently, etc. I have 4 trees I work on from time to time -two on my Dad's side, two on my Mom's. One tree, I have traced back to the early 1600s in Sweden! The others -only go back to the early 1800s. I have a small rock on the shelf above my computer, given to me by the lady in Sweden who sent me the church records used to trace my maternal grandfather's family, and this little rock came from the foundation of the old church in Sweden where my ancestors once worshiped. It brought me to tears when my friend gave this rock to me last year! So yes, I guess you could say I understand completely how it makes you feel to read a letter or card in someone's handwriting, to touch the fabric of an ancestor's wedding dress. And it helps me know myself better in the process as well! Great post, Shelley and it truly is a good thing! .-= Jeni Hill Ertmer´s last blog ..<a href="http://oldavonladysorders.blogspot.com/2009/09/good-fortune.html" rel="nofollow">Good Fortune</a> =-. Family Tree stuff was one of my main considerations when I first started my blog. My idea was that by putting various bits of information about our family into posts on my blog along with self-disclosure -how my weird mind works at times -would leave a bit of a record for my children but even more so, for my grandchildren when I am no longer with them or able to converse semi-intelligently, etc.
I have 4 trees I work on from time to time -two on my Dad’s side, two on my Mom’s. One tree, I have traced back to the early 1600s in Sweden! The others -only go back to the early 1800s. I have a small rock on the shelf above my computer, given to me by the lady in Sweden who sent me the church records used to trace my maternal grandfather’s family, and this little rock came from the foundation of the old church in Sweden where my ancestors once worshiped. It brought me to tears when my friend gave this rock to me last year!
So yes, I guess you could say I understand completely how it makes you feel to read a letter or card in someone’s handwriting, to touch the fabric of an ancestor’s wedding dress. And it helps me know myself better in the process as well!
Great post, Shelley and it truly is a good thing!
Jeni Hill Ertmer´s last blog ..Good Fortune

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