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A cousin sent me a copy of this and I wanted to share it with others.
Have a happy holiday season to all of my fellow family history
researchers and the entire USGenWeb and GaGenWeb friends. Gloria Holback
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Dawn, could they be talking about us??
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Subject: Fw: [Q-R] FOUND IT... Grandma Climbed The Family Tree
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:02:54 -1000
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I'm sure that this is the way my family sees me!
> There's been a change in Grandma
> > we've noticed as of late
> > She's always reading history
> > or jotting down some date
> >
> > She's tracing back the family,
> > we'll all have pedigrees
> > Grandma's got a hobby
> > she's Climbing Family Trees
> >
> > Poor Grandpa does the cooking,
> > and now, or so he states...
> > He even as to wash the cups
> > and the dinner plates
> >
> > Well, grandma can't be bothered,
> > she's busy as a bee
> > compiling genealogy
> > for the Famiy Tree
> >
> > She has no time to baby-sit
> > The curtains are a fright
> > No buttons left on Grandpa's shirts
> > the flower bed's a sight
> >
> > She's given up her club work
> > and the serials on TV
> > the only thing she does nowadays
> > is climb that Family Tree
> >
> > The mail is all for Grandma
> > it comes from near and far
> > last week she got the proof
> > she needs to join th DAR
> >
> > A monumental project
> > to that we all agree
> > a worthwhile avocation
> > to climb the Family Tree
> >
> > She wanders though the graveyard
> > in search of date and name
> > the rich, the poor, the in-between
> > all sleeping there the same
> >
> > She pauses now and then to rest
> > fanned by a gentle breeze
> > that blows above the Fathers
> > of all our Family Trees
> >
> > Now some folks came from Scotland
> > some from Galway Bay
> > Some were as French as pastry
> > and some were German all the way
> >
> > Some went West to stake their claims
> > some stayed there by the sea
> > Grandma hopes to find them all
> > as she climbs the Family Tree
> >
> > There were pioneers and patroits
> > mixed with our kith and kin
> > who blazed the paths of wilderness
> > and fought through thick and thin
> >
> > But none more staunch than Grandma
> > whose eyes light up with glee
> > each time she finds a missing branch
> > for the Family Tree
> >
> > Their skills were wide and varied
> > from carpenter to a cook
> > and one, alas, the records show...
> > was hopelessly a crook
> >
> > Blacksmith, farmer, weaver, judge,
> > some tutored for a fee
> > one got lost in time
> > all are now recorded on the Family Tree
> >
> > To some it's just a hobby
> > to Grandma it's much more
> > she learns the joys and heartaches
> > of those who went before
> >
> > They loved, they lost, they laughed, they wept
> > and now for you and me
> > they live again in spirit...
> > around the Family Tree
> >
> > At last she's nearly finished
> > and we are each exposed
> > life will be the same again
> > this is what we all suppose
> >
> > Grandma will cook and sew
> > serve crullers with our tea
> > we'll have her back, just as before
> > that wretched Family Tree
> >
> > Sad to relate
> > the preacher called and visited for a spell
> > we talked about the Gospel
> > and other things as well
> >
> > The heathen folk, the poor and then,
> > 'twas fate, it had to be
> > somehow the conversation tuned to...
> > Grandma's Family Tree
> >
> > We tried to change the subject
> > we talked of everything
> > but then in Grandma's voice
> > we herad that old familiar ring
> >
> > She told him all about the past,
> > and soon 'twas plain to see
> > the preacher, too, was neatly snared by
> > Grandma's Family Tree
>
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