Here's wishing you a very Merry Christmas to you and yours... and here's my
Christmas Wish List!
Anne
Shawano GenWeb
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I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or Melchizenick von
Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not William Brown or John
Hunter or Mary Abbott.
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 isinglass frames
annotated with calligraphic inscriptions, and carved valuable and
informative inscriptions in their headstones.
I want relatives who managed to bury their ancestors 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, journalizing
every little event and detailing the familial relationship of every visitor.
In the case of immigrant ancestors, I want them to have arrived only in
those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by the 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 houses, and who dated every piece of paper
they touched.
I want ancestors who were wealthy enough to afford, and to keep for
generations, the family 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!!!!!
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