Thread: I Want..............

petal · 13-06-2006, 02:38 PM

Sue Hare sent me this through e mail.............loved it but wasn't sure where to put it so here you are.........................

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 voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones.

I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors 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, countyclerks 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 progenitors,I want them to have arrived only in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by 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 forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and to keep for generations, the tribal 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

Chris · 13-06-2006, 06:57 PM

Mary realy if that were the case it would be far to easy, the fun is the search and finding

plus meeting others on the way, if that easy m8 wouldnt have met you

xx

petal · 13-06-2006, 08:04 PM

I know what you mean Chris..........love playing the 'detective' but do sometimes our old rellies could have made life just a little bit easier.......some really fantactic names would do instead of Smith ! I mean.......where do you begin with that one

mollie · 13-06-2006, 08:19 PM

Well maybe if just one branch of the family done all that it would make life easier...........lol

Chris · 13-06-2006, 08:51 PM

I got Smith and Brown

but still love the research side

Shan · 13-06-2006, 09:58 PM

COME ON lADIES
if it wer'nt for you lot where would i be?

redundant

Starlight · 16-06-2006, 09:58 PM

Hi Mary,

To answer one of your questions on another thread, this would have been okay in the genealogy chat room.

robbo176 · 17-06-2006, 10:18 AM

I love the research side too trying to fit all the jigsaw pieces in (even though some are the wrong shape & wont fit in anywhere

)
my Foreman tree has been done by so many people & it goes way back to abt 1550 so there is nothing left for me to do

the rest of my branches are all my own hard work I haven't got as far back but it is a lot more satisfying than having the whole tree handed to me on a plate

Mandy

Chris · 17-06-2006, 12:23 PM

yes Mandy well said, i agree too,one side of my husbands tree has been done,but like you ive my side to which im enjoying

13-06-2006, 02:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	I Want.............. Sue Hare sent me this through e mail.............loved it but wasn't sure where to put it so here you are......................... 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 voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones. I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors 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, countyclerks 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 progenitors,I want them to have arrived only in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by 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 forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and to keep for generations, the tribal 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
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

13-06-2006, 06:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Chris Ancestry Aid Owner Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK - England Posts: 5,581	Re: I Want.............. Mary realy if that were the case it would be far to easy, the fun is the search and finding plus meeting others on the way, if that easy m8 wouldnt have met you xx
	Chris Ancestry Aid Owner

13-06-2006, 08:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: I Want.............. I know what you mean Chris..........love playing the 'detective' but do sometimes our old rellies could have made life just a little bit easier.......some really fantactic names would do instead of Smith ! I mean.......where do you begin with that one
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

13-06-2006, 08:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
mollie Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Isle of Man Posts: 1,686 Total Awards: 2	Re: I Want.............. *Well maybe if just one branch of the family done all that it would make life easier...........lol*
	Mollie Ancestry Aid Moderator The UK's No 1 For Genealogy & Family History. Top Tip: Use the forum search page to find surnames!!. Dunne,McManus, McCann,O'Dowd, Higgins, Smith, Traynor, O'Byrne, Lamond/t Henry/Nicolson/Bowman/McCafferty/Keelan and more....did I say Smith...oh yes I did...we all have one.........lol

13-06-2006, 08:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
Chris Ancestry Aid Owner Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK - England Posts: 5,581	Re: I Want.............. I got Smith and Brown but still love the research side
	Chris Ancestry Aid Owner

13-06-2006, 09:58 PM	#6 (permalink)
Shan Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hampshire Posts: 1,747 Total Awards: 1	Re: I Want.............. COME ON lADIES if it wer'nt for you lot where would i be? redundant
	Shan *Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life* The UK's No 1 For Genealogy & Family History. Top Tip: Use the forum search page to find surnames!!.

16-06-2006, 09:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
Starlight Ancestry Aid Manager Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: South Essex Posts: 16,355 Total Awards: 8	Re: I Want.............. Hi Mary, To answer one of your questions on another thread, this would have been okay in the genealogy chat room.
	Starlight Ancestry Aid Manager Hampshire:- Barks, Bartholomew, Carpenter, Cousens, Cousins, Dumper, Gallagher, Goodchild, Glasspool, Hoskins, Light, Mason, Monday, Mundy, Pearce, Pitt, Shepherd, Spreadbury, Staniford, Terrill, Thornton, Warne, Webb, Woodford & many more. Top Tip: Use the forum search engine

17-06-2006, 10:18 AM	#8 (permalink)
robbo176 New Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 18	Re: I Want.............. I love the research side too trying to fit all the jigsaw pieces in (even though some are the wrong shape & wont fit in anywhere ) my Foreman tree has been done by so many people & it goes way back to abt 1550 so there is nothing left for me to do the rest of my branches are all my own hard work I haven't got as far back but it is a lot more satisfying than having the whole tree handed to me on a plate Mandy
	researching Robinson, Reay, Rimmer, Malley,Pescod ,Howard ,Addison, Foreman ,Goldspink

17-06-2006, 12:23 PM	#9 (permalink)
Chris Ancestry Aid Owner Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK - England Posts: 5,581	Re: I Want.............. yes Mandy well said, i agree too,one side of my husbands tree has been done,but like you ive my side to which im enjoying
	Chris Ancestry Aid Owner