http://www.genealogyland.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-big-promise/ Join me in the Quest ! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.genealogyland.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-big-promise/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Scottie Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:43:35 +0000 http://www.genealogyland.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-big-promise/#comment-2 Hi, What you have wrtten above is all so true. Promises not kept because they didn't let any of the immediate descendants know. When I started research it was because my grandfather was such a Civil War buff..his dad and both grandfathers along with other various relatives faught in that war. When he was at a much advanced age I learned how to get copies of the Civil War military and pension records and thought I would get them for him...but he didn't enjoy them because he had gotten quite senile...but it sure set me off on the ever lasting hobby of family research!! Like you, that was the early 70s and can't say I have been doing it constantly ever since but it was never far from my thoughts. And, thank God for computers it sure made it easier!!!!! Hi,
What you have wrtten above is all so true. Promises not kept because they didn’t let any of the immediate descendants know.
When I started research it was because my grandfather was such a Civil War buff..his dad and both grandfathers along with other various relatives faught in that war.
When he was at a much advanced age I learned how to get copies of the Civil War military and pension records and thought I would get them for him…but he didn’t enjoy them because he had gotten quite senile…but it sure set me off on the ever lasting hobby of family research!!
Like you, that was the early 70s and can’t say I have been doing it constantly ever since but it was never far from my thoughts.
And, thank God for computers it sure made it easier!!!!!

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