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From: "Julie Webb" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] FAMILY STORY-TELLERS
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:21:29 +1000
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Hi all

For reference the below article "The Story Tellers" has been attributed to
Della JoAnn McGinnis Johnson written in 1943.

Regards
Julie
Gold Coast, Qld

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Subject: [Ess] FAMILY STORY-TELLERS


> The Story Tellers....we are the chosen... or why I am so fascinated
> ("obsessed") with Genealogy My feelings are in each family there is one
> who
> seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make
> them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they
> know and approve. To me doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts
> but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.

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