>>> LETTERS of YESTERDAY, 1841. <<<

I haven't really been involved in our family research but I had an aunt who passed on a couple years ago and she did some extensive research. She found a computer program to organize it all and I now have a disc that I should have looked at by now but haven't. I'll do it this week, you've inspired me!

I'm so glad you got to read that letter. It's great to be able to read the words of someone who helped found your family. I do save all the letters I've received from my family and enjoy reading them sometimes, especially the ones from my grandma who's been gone for nearly 30 years now.

wow how lucky was that I wish I would hit it that lucky I traced my great grandfather to canada but then thats where the branch on the tree breaks he was indain born on an indain resivation an so far i am hearing before they all came to the states they had names like his sister was haunted wind, running dog an so there were like 16 children in his family an I know that the dionne Quints are my cusin though him but ahh I am still trying to tie up the loose knots

I have been involved with doing genealogy for a bunch of years now and enjoy it very much. In fact, I gave myself the day off today and was working with my daughter on that already this morning!

Wow, those letters are*such* a treasure for you. Wonderful! One word of advice... always confirm things you see at sites such as rootsweb.com and familysearch.org. I have gotten some awesome info from them, but many of the entries turn out to be unconfirmed and incorrect, too.

And don't forget to ask for family stories from the elders in your family still living. I've not done so much of that and then it became too late.

Oh, you are SO luck to have come across all of this information. I wish I was that lucky. I am running into dead ends with the one side of the family.
Are you going to post the site online for family and friends to see?
I use Tribalpages.com for my family tree.
I was able to hook up with someone that had members from my family into his tree. It was so interesting to get those names and such from someone else. I had dates that he didn't have and he had names that I didn't have.
My mom is the keeper of all. I wish I was that organized to be able to keep all of the family newsclippings.
I am in the process of typing them all out or even scanning them into my computer. I need to back it up all on disk also. I want to be able to pass all of this family history onto a family member when I pass. i would also like to make a book for my mom, in time, before she passes also. She is the only one I have left to get the history from.
She has contacted her brother about getting me a copy of what HIS wife has gotten together.
I would love to be able to goto the cemetaries and take pics of the tombstones to add into the book also. So much to do, so little money to do it all. When you don't have a paid membership, you can't get too far with record searches.
Another thing that makes it hard to track down a family member is when teh spelling of the name changed, many times over. Another problem that I have run into is that so many in the families have passed the first names down and it gets all confusing at times.

Are you going to get a copy of the letter to add to the family tree?

i like reading old letters...but it was 15 years ago when my hubby went to italy its the letter of my children and mine when they were in their kinder years and elementary its intact since i like collecting old letters ...upon reading i can fully remember what happened at the time it was written...

I do not have old letters, but my mom was the family historian, and she has one of the family bibles! It has written in it many names and information like marriages and baptisms!

No, I haven't and wish that I could do the geneology but I don't have that kind of time.. I do have a cousin who is into tracing the family history and she does give me the information, so that I can learn a bit of my family history.. It is a fascinating job, and it is a job, but you really get to know where you came from and get a sense of who you are and get to know some of your ancestors.. Good going for this great find for you..

I'm glad that your endeavor bore fruit. Come to think of it, it really required a lot of work. Tracing,analyzing and finally verifying but it is also a work worthwhile. Knowing one's roots is one of the best things in the world. You can be proud of your genealogy. I hope I could do the same someday.

My mum is trying to peice together some family history at the moment but isn't having much luck as far as I know as she is struggling to find where one of the relatives went as she didn't marry but had a long term girlfriend but she cannot remember the girls name....all very confusing and long winded when looking at old letters or ships maifests!

About 8 years ago, my uncle mailed all of my brothers and sisters a book of love letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother. They did not have a lot of dates in them but were full of information about them as people. I never met either of them as they died before I was born and so the letters did much to make me feel more connected to them and gave me stronger roots. As both were Irish and stuggled trying to get money together in order to purchase the A-1 dairy farm they eventually purchased in Vermont through working in the new auto industry and as help in a hotel, I learned to appreciate them a lot. I know now that my grandparents loved each other... That too me is better even then dates.