CONGRATS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Debbie Bert <debbiebert(a)old-oeridians.com>
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What you accept, you teach.
-----Original Message-----
From: MmeDefarge [mailto:mmedefarge@attbi.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 10:24 PM
To: INMIAMI-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INMIAMI-L] Not Genealogy - But I Can't Resist!
I beg everyone's indulgence and apologize in advance for
using the list
for a personal matter, but I just can't resist any longer!
Please feel free
to report me to the list administrator. :-) I think you all know that I
try to help everyone who posts to the list - if I don't respond to your
post, it's because I don't have any information in my database.
If I do, I
share whatever I have.
But I am just about to burst with the news of not one - but TWO - new
twigs of my own family tree. BOTH of my sons (with the help of my
daughters-in-law, of course) presented me with brand new granddaughters
yesterday, November 8th! Rachael Elizabeth arrived at 7:33 a.m. and Anna
Elizabeth arrived exactly 6 hours later at 1:33 p.m. They
weighed within 2
ounces of each other and were born at the same hospital. I am delighted
with the old-fashioned names they have chosen and I did get to
see them both
yesterday. (I have been taking care of my 1st granddaughter, Rachael's
sister, who is 17 months old and am a bit frazzled at keeping up
with her!)
The first thing I did when I got back from the hospital late
yesterday,
was to enter their names into my personal family database and
wonder at the
odds that they would both have been born on the same day in the same place
in the same hospital. I think all of us who are researching our families'
histories have a special sense as to births and deaths and marriages and
family connections. I think we all see a bigger picture and realize that
what we are today is connected so much to our past and that we feel this
need to discover as much about it as we can.
I can still see my Aunt Ruth's face (this was about 10 years
ago or so -
she is now 96 years old) when I asked her if she had any information about
the family's history. She gave me this look (like I was
demented) and said
"Why do you want to mess around with all those dead people anyway? Here,
have some peach pie." (And it was very good peach pie! They don't make
peach pie like this except in Indiana!) Aunt Ruth, God bless her, has
always lived in the present.
I lost my father on October 15th of this year, and while his
passing was
a blessing because he was so ill, he was really my last connection to the
past. He helped me so much in piecing together my own family
history (which
still contains many mysteries) and I am saddened that he did not live to
know (in this world at least) the thrill of having two
great-granddaughters
born on the same day!
So, again, I beg your indulgence at my personal use of the list, but I
felt I just had to post this all somewhere! May God bless you
all as He has
blessed me.
Nancy
List Administrator