I celebrated a "significant" birthday this week-no not the bus pass one but it's pretty nifty.
I had a lovely e-mail from my Aunt in America recalling her memories of that day.I was born in my Maternal Grandparents home & she had been packed off very reluctantly to school that am.Luckily I held on until 5pm.
She says that as soon as they heard my first cry my Granny said "It sounds like a boy" "I think it sounds like a girl" said she.
It was such a lovely story & she added in so much detail & loving messages I don't want to lose it.I grew up with many paper messages whizzing across the Atlantic & I love to re-read them & it is amazing how much family history there is in them.
Now we live in a paperless society will all that be lost? I urge you to do what I have started-E-mails I want to keep I save to a special file & then download to Disc.I print out FH related ones & they go into my Journals.
Anybody any other ideas as I know so much FH comes in the form of letters & one day we will be part of somebody's Family History.
May I say as a very impatient person the type of almost instant communication,not having to factor in time changes etc that e-mail affords is a very attractive proposition.
Place of e-mails in Family History
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joette
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Place of e-mails in Family History
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CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
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WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
LINLEY/VEITCH-SASK.Canada
ALSO BROWN,MCKIMMIE,MCDOWALL,FRASER.
Greer/Grier,Jenkins/Jankins
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ninatoo
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Happy birthday for this week joette! It sounds like a very special one!
I am a big fan of email communication, especially where the family tree is concerned. I would never have had the patience to wait for letters from my dad's long lost half brothers to write, but also the wealth of information that can be obtained in such a short amount of time has been fantastic.
The internet as a whole is such a fantastic resource for genealogy. Making contact with distant cousins, researching a particular place, or a medical condition, or a historical event is all made so much easier. I would never have been able to know what places look like without the multitude of photographs and maps available on the internet. Add to that SP and message boards such as this one, newspaper archives and so on....I am so very grateful to be able to use this technology. It has given me a real sense of who I am, and where I really came from.
But the emails...one very special one came to me last year when I made contact with my dad's half brothers. I had never seen a picture of my paternal grandfather...and it was one of the first photos they sent me. I was so struck by the likeness my father has to him...
And one of the half brothers was a wee hero to a baby 'me' all those years ago. I have always heard the story of how my Mum had me out in the pram for air outside the close, and a nasty young neighbourhood boy came along and severly pinched my forehead. It came up in a big blister, and when my uncle (at ten years old) came to visit and saw it, he was absolutely furious and went and sorted out the offender.
And now I regularly have contact with that Uncle, and of course the extended family, who we had not heard of for forty years.
Sorry for going on a bit, but email communication has meant such a lot to me. Maybe it is because we have had no extended family in Australia since we got here, just the five of us...and so I have missed out on that. Now, through email, I have found a cousin in Australia that we didn't know existed...as well as others all over the world.
It goes on and on for me. Yes I love email!
Nina
I am a big fan of email communication, especially where the family tree is concerned. I would never have had the patience to wait for letters from my dad's long lost half brothers to write, but also the wealth of information that can be obtained in such a short amount of time has been fantastic.
The internet as a whole is such a fantastic resource for genealogy. Making contact with distant cousins, researching a particular place, or a medical condition, or a historical event is all made so much easier. I would never have been able to know what places look like without the multitude of photographs and maps available on the internet. Add to that SP and message boards such as this one, newspaper archives and so on....I am so very grateful to be able to use this technology. It has given me a real sense of who I am, and where I really came from.
But the emails...one very special one came to me last year when I made contact with my dad's half brothers. I had never seen a picture of my paternal grandfather...and it was one of the first photos they sent me. I was so struck by the likeness my father has to him...
And one of the half brothers was a wee hero to a baby 'me' all those years ago. I have always heard the story of how my Mum had me out in the pram for air outside the close, and a nasty young neighbourhood boy came along and severly pinched my forehead. It came up in a big blister, and when my uncle (at ten years old) came to visit and saw it, he was absolutely furious and went and sorted out the offender.
And now I regularly have contact with that Uncle, and of course the extended family, who we had not heard of for forty years.
Sorry for going on a bit, but email communication has meant such a lot to me. Maybe it is because we have had no extended family in Australia since we got here, just the five of us...and so I have missed out on that. Now, through email, I have found a cousin in Australia that we didn't know existed...as well as others all over the world.
It goes on and on for me. Yes I love email!
Nina
Researching: Easton ( Renfrewshire, Dunbarton and Glasgow), Corr (Londonderry and Glasgow), Carson (Co. Down, Irvine, Ayrshire and Glasgow), Logan (Londonderry and Glasgow)