I have a tree in my front yard around which the roots are above the ground, and the grass is sparse in this area. I have decided to just do something creative and interesting with rocks, ground cover, hostas, fossils and maybe I'll put a bench right in the middle of it. If it turns out good I'll share pictures.
I have this other journal that I haven't done anything with for a long time. I started it to talk about my father and mother's families, post old pictures, and hopefully hear from any distant relatives. My very first entry in the journal asks for anyone related to the Dowells or Robertses from Breckinridge County, KY to contact me. Well, I finally was contacted. A comment was left in that first post, from a cousin I've never met. His mother and I are first cousins, and I never met her either. She was the daughter of one of my Dad's eldest brothers. This particular uncle of mine was married twice. His first wife, with whom he had several children died before I was born. They lived in Louisville, and I never remember meeting any of those kids. He remarried and had three children, two older than I and one two years younger than I. They moved back to Breckinridge County while all three children were still young, so I grew up with them.
Anyway, this cousin, Steve, is the son of one those daughters from the first marriage. I emailed him, he responded, and I hope this is just the beginning of a regular correspondence. He has been researching my father's family for the past 25 years and was able to go back two generations further than I had previously been aware of. He assured me he would share his research with me. I let him know about the Dowell reunion we're having in July; he isn't sure he and his wife can come. I hope they can.
I called my mom and told her about him contacting me, and she said if she had a computer that's what she'd enjoy using it for. We've been trying to talk her into letting us buy her one, so we could stay in touch by email. She said she'd have to hunt and peck to type emails, but I said that was fine, at least we could contact her every day. We may just buy her one whether she likes it or not!
3 comments:
How exciting! I've always wanted to get into my family's geneology but always found that it would be too time consuming. I've never even thought about doing something like that with a journal! Great idea!
I say buy your mom the computer. Dell has some great buys on simple, no frills computers. I think I'm going to get one for my mother too, maybe for Christmas!
Martha :-)
Do you know about e-mail stations? Before I had a computer my daughter bought me one. You can send e-mail to anyone who has a computer but you don't have all the other "stuff". After I used it a year then I wanted a computer. Anyway I kept up with both my daughters with us e-mailing back and forth. Paula
That is so cool being able to keep up with distant relatives, especially ones that you never knew existed!
Maybe I'll try that! :)
jackie
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