Subject: Family History Blog
Posted by: mpkitty
Date: Jun 17 18
I believe all should keep their family history alive, if you know it. If you don't, your experiences are important to keep alive. Can we share some?
I'll start...
Posted by: mpkitty
Date: Jun 17 18
I believe all should keep their family history alive, if you know it. If you don't, your experiences are important to keep alive. Can we share some?
I'll start...
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sadwings 
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Hmmm. Ooookay. Did he offer any kind of explanation as to how that would even be possible, Mark, or did he just make that statement and just let it go at that? Yeah, from what I understand, there are lots of people who think they are from another planet or think that they are a several thousand year old vampire or think that there are just all kinds of people running around every day in every corner of the world who are really not people but angels in human form. Poppycock! One thing is for sure, any form of belief about anything whatsoever that is more or less impossible to be disproven outright is certain to be just the kind of belief that people everywhere are going to attest to all the way to their graves. I guess it gives them something to impress others with and maybe helps them cope with all of their insecurities or something, I really don't know. Never had that problem. Reply #101. Aug 24 18, 7:48 PM |
terraorca
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He meant that he thought that he was god. Reply #102. Aug 24 18, 8:20 PM |
| terraorca
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People believe what they want to believe. Sometimes people believe what is most convenient for their chosen belief. Just because we believe something different from them doesn't mean that they are wrong or that we are right or vice versa. Faith is believing in something that cannot be proven. Reply #103. Aug 24 18, 8:25 PM |
MotherGoose
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Years ago, we inherited boxes of family photographs from both sides of the family. We sorted them out and shared them with family members who were featured in them and for whom they probably had more relevance. In many cases there were duplicate photos so sharing was easy. The relatives were very pleased to get them - some of them made comments like "I never had a picture of my great-grandparents until now". It certainly made all the effort we went to worthwhile. So we ended up with our own box of photos. Many of them were of people in uniform. We had family members in all branches of the military. Hubby, who was also in the military, decided to make a military-themed scrapbook/photo album featuring all these photos. Then he realised that our daughter probably would have no idea who half the people were, so he started compiling a family tree to stick into the back of the album to explain how these people were related to her. He did it the hard way from scratch (before finding out you could download free software to help). He then "bolded" the names of the members on the family tree whose photos were in the album. That in turn led to researching the family tree, joining ancestry.com, getting DNA testing done, etc. Reply #104. Aug 24 18, 8:49 PM |
| sadwings
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That is awesome, MotherGoose. Most people these days would probably not even care enough to go to that much effort. Yeah, Mark, faith is just exactly the thing that allows some people the comfort of knowing that no flesh and blood human being on the face of this earth that eats and sleeps and poops and dies and rots just like everyone else is a 4,000 year old vampire or an angel or an alien. Doesn't have to be disproven. That was already done before time even began. Reply #105. Aug 24 18, 10:41 PM |
KittyKatey
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Mark very funny. So I suppose mentioning my family tree was not out of place for this thread? Just checking. Don't want anybody getting upset at me. There is enough problems in the world and have noticed of late that some people can be very sensitive. Reply #106. Aug 25 18, 4:18 PM |
| sadwings
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Welcome to FT. Reply #107. Aug 25 18, 5:55 PM |
| KittyKatey
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Thank you Kev. Reply #108. Aug 25 18, 7:00 PM |
C30
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Unfortunately (or fortunately?), having faith in your beliefs, does not make whatever it is you believe in, factual truth. Reply #109. Aug 27 18, 4:36 AM |
| sadwings
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This is very true, and it's exactly the way it was designed to be from the very beginning. That way, when the party's over, nobody can claim that they were forced to believe anything. We are all given the choice to believe or not to believe. In the meantime, what seems to be even the most concrete evidence of this or that seems to also be veiled in eternal mystery. Reply #110. Aug 27 18, 5:07 AM |
| terraorca
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But by the time you find out that it was all a pack of lies, it is too late. Reply #111. Aug 27 18, 12:46 PM |
| sadwings
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I think the most important thing of all is just simply what lies within a person's heart. We all fall short of what we were originally created to be, but for those who have only the best intentions toward others and who are always striving to better themselves for the very purpose of being a better fellow human being toward others, the real truth about a lot of life's mysteries will somehow find its way into their hearts, and everything else will just kind of fall into place within and around every aspect of their lives. I suppose it is like a never ending chain reaction of sorts. We reap what we sow. That kind of thing. When one's heart is tuned to the right frequency, there is really no need for one to worry about anything at all. Every last truth that ever was will one day be revealed in all its eternal glory, and every last human being who ever lived will be there to see it. After that, all the myths and lies won't exactly matter much any more. Reply #112. Aug 27 18, 3:41 PM |
| terraorca
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Que sera, sera. Reply #113. Aug 27 18, 5:44 PM |
| sadwings
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Whatever will be, will be indeed. Reply #114. Aug 27 18, 8:32 PM |
mpkitty
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Reply #115. Aug 29 18, 2:29 PM |
| sadwings
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That is a terrible shame, Stephanie. I hope your faith gives you the comfort of knowing in your heart that you will get to see her and be with her again someday. After given enough time to come to terms with things, it surely makes things like that a lot easier to cope with. At least that's the way it has always been for me. I lost an aunt to lung cancer about 20 years ago when she was only 50. She was the only woman in my pretty large family that I know of who smoked. A lot of the men do but none of the women, at least not in my immediate family. Counting all the cousins and aunts and uncles and their spouses and kids, my family would have to be right around 200 people at this point. We have had a few reunions over the years with well over a hundred people. Reply #116. Aug 29 18, 6:33 PM |
| mpkitty
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Reply #117. Aug 30 18, 12:15 PM |
daver852
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This fellow was one of my ancestors, on my mother's side. One of his descendants carried the Banner of St. George at the Battle of Agincourt. Through him (or rather, his wife) it is possible to trace descent from the early Anglo-Saxon kings, and even further back through the Kings of Scotland to the 6th century. I think this is rather fanciful, however. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173472583/sir_william-de_strickland Reply #118. Aug 30 18, 2:11 PM |
| mpkitty
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Reply #119. Aug 30 18, 8:54 PM |
| sadwings
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Yeah, that's pretty cool and awesome, daver. The history of the UK is so fascinating to me that, I suppose in some odd kind of way, it makes all the people living there now kind of like celebrities to me. It's like if I were ever over there - anywhere at all over there - my heart would just be pounding out of my chest and I would be tingling with excitement with every person that I spoke to. Isn't that weird? Of course, the UK's history is only about, oh, 75% of why I feel that way. The other 25% comes from the fact that she gave birth to immortal gods like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Sabbath, The Beatles, etc. etc. etc. etc. :-p Reply #120. Aug 30 18, 9:21 PM |
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