[or-roots] Re: Giving Flesh to Oregon History

[Rosalie Harnden]

Helen I totally agree with you,  when I started researching My family 
history I didn't even knwo my Gr Grandparents names, All I knew was 
 Grandpa and Grandma but when My parents were both in the hospital at 
the same time I
started talking about family and wondering and Mom fianlly gave me their 
first names after all those years, anyway
I went to the LDS Church and looked in the IGI and found their Marriage 
date and where, and I got so excited, and
when I told Mom that she got exctied too and she started telling me that 
they are buried in Enterprise and how they
came west from  Ohio and etc.. well that  put me to thinking, That was 
the year Dad retired and we was going to go
family finding.. and did we ever, Dad started rememering things and what 
his Ancestors names were and etc,, and
we went to the Cemetry in Flora Ore where they are buried and he got so 
excited , he remembered where they are
buried and then took me to the homestead place and what a day I had to 
see him so excited finding the place where
he grew up and come to find out was born there.. Now he is gone and I 
can telll these stories and bring him back to
me for a spell and that is what it is all about. REMEMBERING and 
ADMIRING our ancestors . I had a wonderful
life and had so much fun and still do and now we have reunions on both 
sides of my family that we didn't before I
started searching and going to family members getting info and pictures 
and etc,. Now My Dad is gone, and My Mom
has to be taken care of and AM I ever glad I spent those five and ten 
years taking them every summer to see family and
visiting and etc.. they had so  much fun, and when they got so they 
couldn't travel anymore, I took the camcorder and
videoed the area I went and the homesteads and etc  and the Cemetery on 
Memorial Day  of all our family Members,
brothers, sisters, parents,  grandparents and etc.. and they got so see 
those the rest of their life..

SO who ever don't like to hear the Oregon Family Histories.. go else 
where.. we have fun and love the stories,  keep
the minds greased of the great times and the histories of the family at 
the time life was so hard and still so much fun.
I would love to live in a log cabin  in the OCHOCO's or the BLUE MTs any 
time where I  know they lived and
worked and had a great life. IN FACT the Cabin in Eastern Ore where My 
Mom and Dad lived the first few month of
their marriage in 1940, is still there and the flowers Mom planted are 
still coming up and blooming.. Now Mom has the
memories of the day she planted those and told us the great story, those 
are great stories. and special ones, Mom and Dad
were married 61 years when Dad passed away. That is all Oregon Ancestory 
History, and if we want to share it
 why Not ?  

I have said enough but I have made my point and we can all share our 
history and Love it.
Rosalie in Central Oregon
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Helen Cast wrote:

> I have a cousin that has just finished writing a book about his 
> ancestors. He explained it like this. He researched & collected all 
> the pertinent information, dates & places etc then he did further 
> research & started putting flesh to his family. What he meant was, he 
> gave them life. So much of our genealogy is not about giving our lost 
> ones life but death. I say that because I remember when I first 
> started finding family members that I never knew personally, & most of 
> the time I never knew they even existed, when I would finally sit down 
> & start entering them into my files I felt like I was burying them all 
> over again & sometime the tears would stream. I wasn't fortunate 
> enough to have what it took to give them life.
> This is what Cecil does. He brings the people from his past up out of 
> the grave & gives them life. He does it so unselfishly & so well
> that it is a terrible loss to us all if we are denied his great 
> knowledge of the history of Oregon.
> I have no idea how this all started but it looks like the loser won. 
> Who ever that person is, is a person that is only interested in birth 
> dates & death dates & I feel sorry for her/him because she/he has no 
> idea what genealogy is all about.
> I want to say one final thing. You have severed a huge portion of 
> Oregon history from your list.
>  
>  
> My Warmest Regards & Regrets,
> Helen
> Home is on The Beautiful DelMarVa Peninsula
>  
> hcast01 at comcast.net <mailto:hcast01 at comcast.net>


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