Lindsey,
I am sorry to hear about your Aunt Billie.
Thank you for sharing with us your tribute to her. The bits and pieces you
got to share with her before she passed, probably meant a great deal to her,
even though she didn't get to see everything. It is wonderful that you got
to share your findings with her and got to hear her stories.
I wish I would have gotten involved with my family tree alot sooner, when
some of my grandparents were still living. I often wonder what stories they
could have told me.
I am glad you got the opportunity to share your work with her.
Gina
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From: <LAFinken(a)aol.com>
To: <INRANDOL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:39 PM
Subject: [INRANDOL] tribute to passing of Aunt
I just wanted to write a small tribute of thanks to my Aunt Billie
who
started me on genealogy and held onto and provided me with the many
pictures
original documents on both her mother's and father's side,
and stories of
her
recollections of her childhood. How I wished she had seen the
finished
package,
but only heard the bits and pieces I had been finding. She had
always
wondered who grandmother Lambert was, and it turned out when Sarah Jane
Harlan's
first husband died in the Civil War she remarried Isaac Lambert and
had
more
children. So that was one piece I was able to explain to her as an
adult
while she
was still cognative in her thinking, because at age 5-7 when she was
visited
or went to visit grandmother Lambert she could not place who she
was.
She passed this morning at the age of 87 of heart failure.
She was descended from Harlan, Mangas, Smith, Terrell of R/C Indiana
Lindsey Finken
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