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November 2009 
Who would you really like to get to know?
Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009
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mimi
mimi
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 02, 2009:
Ancestors - stories of their lives.
That is why I am gathering family information, documents, pictures. I have found long lost relatives in Belarus, and over 100 second and third cousins in Canada.
I am printing some of my blog pieces and putting them in a binder for my grandchildren. They are really interested in what I was like and what I did when I was a kid and I enjoy reading my stories to them. They liked the one about "getting the strap".
Anyone I want to know now, I just give it a try and see what happens. Whatever happens, happens. Sometimes nothing happens. That is something too.
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I have a cousin who is doing the same thing, scanning photos and documents and sending them to us. He and my brother have struck up correspondence and visits with long lost cousins of my father both here in the U.S. and in Europe. What is fascinating is seeing the similar gestures, ways of talking, and physical characteristics that have been handed down through generations.
Hey barbara, thanks for your comment. It is a great service to those who will come after us - to have records and photos they can look at and see themselves in those reflections and see the Real People who they sprung from.
I recently found the children and grandchildren of my grandfather's brother.(my great uncle) They get all excited when I send them pictures of their newfound cousins, uncles/gu/ggu. They are shocked at the resemblances. My son and his 4th cousin (about same age) are almost identical. It is spooky to see.
what a fascinating project!