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I found these at a website while looking for something else. (Isn't it always that way??? LOL)

 

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Preserving the Past

(author unknown)

 

Who is this little girl?

What happened on this day?

Did she grow up to be a mom?

No one can truly say.

 

How proud and glad I'm sure she'd be

To see herself this way.

But through neglect and lack of care,

Her joy is lost today.

 

Stored in a box and put away,

Forgotten there so long ago --

Along with letters, flowers and cards,

And other faces we don't know.

 

Such a pretty little picture,

And its condition is quite good --

But no one ever kept it in

The place they really should.

 

So when I found her photo there,

It made me sad to see,

For all her youthful days on earth

Were lost in history.

 

 

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(Thanks to: Thalia Brown who penned this verse while pursuing her BLINN, BLYNN, BLIN, BLAINE, and BLEN ancestors.)

 

Davids, Davids everywhere, but none the correct link.

In this confusing research it really makes you think;

What our ancestors were thinking when they named their children fair?

Did they know in later years we would be pulling out our hair?

 

"Ah ah!" you say, narrowing down names of many a dozen.

"Oh, good grief!" your reply discovering he has wed his first cousin.

So how does yet another David fit into this family group?

Figure it out later -- your brain has turned into pea-soup.

 

Enumerators, as we all know, were quite a sneaky bunch.

They were crafty in their writing and you really have no hunch,

If the name that you are staring at truly belongs in your line.

Oh, my gosh, this boy's a girl! Well isn't this just fine?

 

You sit and stare and laugh at the errors you've just found.

You wonder what your ancestor, long buried in the ground.

Would think of this mistake, when you know that in his life,

He took three different women to be his wedded wife.

 

Our research would be easier had they stayed in just one place,

But as most of us discover, that is simply not the case.

From Connecticut to New York, and from there on to Ohio,

"Why couldn't they stay put and simply write their own bio?"

 

 

 

http://members.tripod.com/LeeHouse/genepoem.htm

[Linda]

oh so true

[Wheeler]

Thanks Cat... Anybody who has done much genealogy knows that those poems are so true! I have several pictures of little girls too! And I don't know who they are! Isn't it a shame that our parents didn't write names and dates on them. This is a good example of what we should do as soon as we get those pictures back from the shop! And then there are my Joseph, Samuel and George ancestors... they loved each other so much that they named their sons after each other... such a confusing mess for us, their descendants...

[logcabinmama]

Oh Boy, do I ever agree. We have pictures we have no idea who they are. Some are adults, some are kids.