NANCY..HEY THAT IS GREAT !!! WILL BE EASY TO REMEMBER BIRTHDAYS .. YOU
KNOW WHEN WE GET TO BE GRANDMOTHERS OUR MEMORIES GO ... FROM TIME TO TIME
(GRIN) ..SORRY ABOUT YOUR FATHER META
----- Original Message -----
From: "lmitch" <lmitch(a)iquest.net>
To: <INMIAMI-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [INMIAMI-L] Not Genealogy - But I Can't Resist!
Enjoyed reading your happy news! Although not as astounding as your
double
event, I was excited when I discovered my son was born on his Miami
county
great-grandfather's birthday. My grandfather died before I was
ever born,
so I never knew him at all, but this was a happy link to the past for my
son, my father, and me!
----- Original Message -----
From: "MmeDefarge" <mmedefarge(a)ATTBI.COM>
To: <INMIAMI-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:23 PM
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
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