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From: "Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Why do we do this?
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:19:43 -0500

Hello,

Many people ask me why I am interested in genealogy, and what benefit
I see in it. I found the following under piles and piles of family
information that I'm sorting through as I embark on documenting my
nephew's genealogy. (He is a United States Marine.) It very much
describes how I feel, and I would like to share it with you. I hope
you enjoy it.

"We live in the past by a knowledge of its history, and in the future
by hope and anticipation. By ascending to an association with our
ancestors, by contemplating their example and studying their
character; by partaking their sentiments and imbibing their spirit; by
accompanying them in their toils; by sympathizing in their sufferings
and rejoicing in their successes and triumphs, we mingle our existence
with theirs and seem to belong to their age."

- Quote By Daniel Webster

Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
Holland Township, HC, NJ

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