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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Thoughts on adding a wife
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:35:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: <060220050106.6057.429E5BAA0001ACC6000017A92200750784089B07039C02990E08@comcast.net>


On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:06:50 +0000, wrote:

> The records, especially the census are not dull and dry,
> they tell an incredible story.

Yes, they do. I recall my excitement, some years ago, when I found my
G-grandfather with his parents and siblings in the 1850 census,
perhaps the first census record I'd examined. A month or two later the
feeling was very different when I came home from the library after
finding all the children in the 1860 census, each living with a
different neighbor, and the mother and father not to be found. That
was only the beginning of my journey to understand, and appreciate,
more about my father, and perhaps gain a glimmer of understanding of
what drove him to be who he was.

Terry Reigel

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