July 1, 2024 Another Day has Gone, Gone, Gone.

 Greetings to all,

  Cleaning files,  is lots of fun.  We forget so much until you start to go back through old papers.

Genealogical Speaking  one must decide what is worth keeping, what is not. 

There in falls the quiz.  He wants this, She wants that, Someone else wants something

even more different. Alas one wants NONE

  

Been Reading a lot about writing data for time and what should be there and what is not needed.

 It is like we need two sets of files.  Maybe write one basic genealogical with out the things I find critical 

to create in the file. Feeling that medical background is vital and may safe a future family member. 

Thankfully someone did that for me on one side of family. It saved our first born,.  To me that is vital.

Today with DNA out there and Doctors using it to resolve problems and solve issues I think some of that is so very key.  Others say O O NO NO  that is private. So a grandchild dies or an Uncle has serious side affects because others did not share it had happened to others.   I can not use Aspirin it cause me a heart attack. Many on Mom's side had same issues. Thankfully Mom talked to them to learn why, after the Aspirin she felt so much worse thought she was dying.   Those are personal experiences we have had.

Milk allergies abound in both sides of the house.  Not everyone has them but not everyone escaped them either.   Where do you draw the line? Some learn you can have in moderation others learn there is no moderation.  This applies to foods, chemicals, colognes etc. 

I am thinking of a basic  birth, marriage, death  Insert and then family data after that. By using both past family if known and down to youngest known.

Having a letter my GGGrandmom wrote talking about how she kept a canary in her house, The house guest was appalled. Then she was told that if the bird keels over they know there is bad air in the home and to get out,.  She came from many family members that worked coal mines.    See there is so much to say.

 As I am not doing classes now I wonder it this topic has been addressed and did the group get an understanding of the situation.  After all we are all humans of this place called earth there by we are Earthlings.  Who knows what we know that will help someone else.

Knowing some of this helped me to gain new cousins that we could not at the time proof. Today we have DNA but 30 years ago we did not.  Genealogy is changing but it has not changed, basics are same, names, places, dates are the same. We just seem to have a bigger data base to pull our past from more accurately.

Remembering that not all were well documented. Those in power were threatened by the unknown and 

refused to catalogue or put on census etc.  It seems to have been happening since the beginning of time.

More to come.   

By Susan Jones Pentico