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<DIV>I planned to stay out of this.</DIV>
<DIV> But I did want to say that Walt put this very well.</DIV>
<DIV>Walt - my cousin the lady we brought to your place some time back. She said
this also , she is a writer, you wrote it better...!</DIV>
<DIV> Folks - we like dreams </DIV>
<DIV>and sometimes I like to just day dream those times of the pioneers.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> I have read many nice books about what pioneers said and told their
stories , </DIV>
<DIV>and I sit on my nice big computer chair close my eyes and think about it
then read some more.. </DIV>
<DIV>out of all the publications, Aunt Charlotte is one that make the dreams
come alive.. if all people were to hide this work, some one will loose those
times to dream </DIV>
<DIV> I checked her book out once and read it, only to wish
some one in my family had some the same, or if they did, I wish I could find
them--- My cousin and some other made some real real nice genealogy books with
lots of hard searched facts and a few stories , they are a good source of facts
, some errors but not a lot, but I want a book like Aunt Charlotte's with the
stories ===</DIV>
<DIV> Walt shared one story with me about my great grand father, yup
the guy who was on the 1843 trail who sold his mule to Nesmith then wanted a
duel when Nesmith did not pay , more of that story in the books, but I
would not have looked had Walt not shared this. When I came into this genealogy,
I did not even know one thing about my people or my Great Great grand fathers
name , I came in from not knowing because mom n dad got a divorce and mom would
never talk about the family she knew a great deal about.</DIV>
<DIV> Its all about History and History is worthless unless it
is shared.</DIV>
<DIV>I thank those who do .</DIV>
<DIV>PS any one who wants to see the Nesmith memorial, I took pictures and
shared them on my website <A
href="http://www.wvi.com/~wb">www.wvi.com/~wb</A></DIV>
<DIV> Lots of nice folks here, some day I would like to meet you.</DIV>
<DIV>Dan Matney l;-0)) </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Posted without
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<DIV>A lot of people will spend their whole life collecting and putting
together their family tree and won't share it with a living sole because they
think its all their hard work and no one else should have any of it.
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