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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (1558)	9/22/2006 2:58:09 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 10087

I've done genealogy and history study for 30+ years. Many times, people don't think about the fact that genealogy is the study of ALL of your ancestors...not just the ones on the father's side, or just the ones on the mother's side. History actually becomes alive when you start to realize how varied genealogy really is. You are no "better" and hopefully, no "worse" than the people who went before you. That has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything, although some people in the past thought it did. Most of us will find some sort of royalty in at least one distant line of our, but so what? They had their life and we have ours. You have your own life, and can make your own path, complete with your own mistakes and own joys. Each of us are descended from TWO people, who were EACH descended from two people. Etc. That really makes it interesting. Not only do I try to figure out what their names were, but their "times"....what were they like when and where they lived. Were there any letters they wrote themselves? Any diaries? Or are there letters held by others in the related families that talk about your ancestors?Are there any pictures or photographs of yesteryear? I've never "JUST" wanted to know the basic name, place, date. But have tried to fill in wherever possible "WHO" were these people? What did they think? What did they do for a living? How did they meet? What was going in their country on every decade they lived? How did that influence their way of life? And from them to me.....what traits did I inherit, if any? Most of all, it does make History come alive for me. It is so much more interesting when we find some of those who went before us actually were part of the process.