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YOU KNOW YOU'RE TAKING GENEALOGY TOO SERIOUSLY IF....
In order to put the "final touches" on your genealogical research,
you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples.
You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party
with a shovel.
You were instrumental in having "non-genealogical use of the genealogy
room copy machine" classified as a federal hate crime.
Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical
records are stored.
You decided to take a two-week break from genealogy, and the U.S.
Postal
Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees.
Out of respect for your best friend's unquestioned reputation for
honesty
and integrity, you are willing to turn off that noisy surveillance
camera
while she reviews your 57 genealogical research notebooks in your
home.
The armed security guard, however, will remain.
You plod merrily along "refining" your recently published family
history,
blissfully unaware that the number of errata pages now far exceeds the
number of pages in your original publication.
During an ice storm and power outage, you ignore the pleas of your
shivering spouse and place your last quilt around that 1886 photograph
of dear Uncle George.
The most recent document in your "Missing Ancestors" file is a 36-page
contract between you and Johnson Billboard Advertising Company.
Ed McMahon, several t.v. cameras and an envelope from Publishers
Clearing House arrive at your front door on Super Bowl Sunday, and the
first thing you say is, "Are you related to the McMahons of Ohio?".
"A Loving Family" and "Financial Security" have moved up to second and
third, respectively, on your list of life's goals, but still lag far
behind "Owning My Own Microfilm Reader."
A magical genie appears and agrees to grant your any one wish, and you
ask that the 1890 census be restored.
This obituary was indexed on The Obituary Daily Times. I don't know any
more about the deceased, but appreciate more information if someone on
the list recognizes him.
CLARY - Frank A., age 87, Papillion. Preceded in death by 2 brothers; 1
sister; granddaughter, Michaela. Survived by wife, Ruth; daughter and
son-in-law, Linda and David Eaton, Omaha; sons, Eugene, Papillion, Ted,
Omaha, James, LaVista; grandchildren, Mark Miller, Michelle and David
Beedon, Donald Clary, Nichole Clary; 2 great-grandchildren; sister,
Gertrude Parker, Lincoln; brothers and sisters-in-law, Harold and Marcia
Clary, Merced CA; Leonard and Darlene Clary, Gretna; brother-in-law,
Darrell Gruber, Omaha.
Services Thurs. 10:30 am, First Lutheran Church, Papillion. Interment Cedar
Dale Cemetery. Visitation Wed. 1-8 pm, family will receive friends 6-8 pm.
Memorials to the Church.
Kahler-Dolce
Papillion, Neb.
402/339-3232
(Extracted from the Aug 12, 1998 Omaha World Herald)
"I Want"
By Barbara A. Brown
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Yep -- I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or
Melchizedick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Gianfortoni,
not William Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott. [...or John C.
Sutton]
I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children baptized
in recognized houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left
detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their
photographs taken once a year -- subsequently putting said pictures in
elaborate glass frames annotated with calligraphic inscriptions, and
carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones. I want
relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established,
still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries.
I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the military
as
officers and who served in strategically important (and well
documented)
skirmishes. I want relatives who served as councilmen, schoolteachers,
county clerks and town historians. I want relatives who 'religiously'
wrote in the family Bible, journaling every little event and detailing
the familial relationship of every visitor.
In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to have arrived only
in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by National
Archives, and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to have
done so only in those jurisdictions which have since established
indices.
I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who joined every
patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and listed all
their addresses, who had paintings made of their horses, and who dated
every piece of paper they touched. I want forebears who were wealthy
enough to afford, and to keep for generations, the tribal homestead,
and
who left all the aforementioned pictures and diaries and journals
intact
in the library.
But most of all, I want relatives I can find!!!
I have an ancestor, Ann Clary who md. 1758 VA to Amos Sledge. Their
children were Lemuel Clary Sledge, Dolly Sledge and Amos Sledge II.
Does anyone have these folks in their database?
Pat
Erle,
I have John Clary b. abt 1664 MD mar. Elizabeth Eleanor Haley 30 Dec
1705 Anne Arundel Co, MD. He d. aft 1728 MD. His father was John
Clary married Mary ?. Elizabeth Eleanor Haley was b. abt 1687 St.
Mary's County, MD d. Baltimore County, MD. Her father was Clement
Haley, mother Mary Turner.
Children of John Clary and Elizabeth Eleanor Haley were: John Clary,
Jr.; Daniel Clary; Mary Clary; William Donovan Clary; Benjamin Clary;
Dorothy Clary; and a male Clary first name unknown.
If you need more info, let me know. From Libba in MS