Mark Hammons
4th March 2006, 06:38 AM (06:38)
How much will our descendants know of us and each other?
In one hundred years? Two hundred?
First cousins? Second cousins? Fifth cousins?
Does it really matter? I think it does!
I have worked on my own, Cindi's and a number of other's family trees for many years. Frankly I love to find how families are intertwinned with each other and how these threads are woven into the tapestry of history. I have found ancestors of mine that were acquaintances of Cindi's ancestors over two hundred years ago. And I cannot help but wonder what would their thoughts be at the fact of two of their great, great, and so on, grandchildren marrying and having a family. I have researched the area around Scarning, Norfolk, England, where my family was from and find their are still Hammons in that area. Distant family?
This past year, I have met a number of my Dad's first cousins, some he knew, some he didn't. What would great grandma and great grandpa Hammons have thought about their grandchildren losing touch with each other? What would their thoughts be of several of them finding each other again after so many years? There are several nurses in the ICU I work in that I have found we share a common ancestor, and it would not surprise me if Wilson Deaton is not connected with this ancestor as he lived over the ridge friom where a large number of Deaton's were from, in Morgan Co., KY.
What has really got me thinking about this is a cousin of my Dad's that was recently in our ICU. I knew his name, but had only seen him one time, that was when my grandmother died, in 1989. I had not met his wife and knew nothing about his kids. Fortunately, I did get to know his wife and daughters while he was with us. He died Thursday night, in the ICU, and I made it an effort to be able to help with getting him prepared for the family to come in to see him and to get him ready to be taken to the funeral home.
I just cannot imagine that my grandchildren or great grandchildren (when we have them) would know each other and do what they could for the others, but I am realistic enough to know that this is what happens and that there is really no one to blame when it does occur. That's just the way life is!!!
Just just thoughts from the middle of the night
Mark
In one hundred years? Two hundred?
First cousins? Second cousins? Fifth cousins?
Does it really matter? I think it does!
I have worked on my own, Cindi's and a number of other's family trees for many years. Frankly I love to find how families are intertwinned with each other and how these threads are woven into the tapestry of history. I have found ancestors of mine that were acquaintances of Cindi's ancestors over two hundred years ago. And I cannot help but wonder what would their thoughts be at the fact of two of their great, great, and so on, grandchildren marrying and having a family. I have researched the area around Scarning, Norfolk, England, where my family was from and find their are still Hammons in that area. Distant family?
This past year, I have met a number of my Dad's first cousins, some he knew, some he didn't. What would great grandma and great grandpa Hammons have thought about their grandchildren losing touch with each other? What would their thoughts be of several of them finding each other again after so many years? There are several nurses in the ICU I work in that I have found we share a common ancestor, and it would not surprise me if Wilson Deaton is not connected with this ancestor as he lived over the ridge friom where a large number of Deaton's were from, in Morgan Co., KY.
What has really got me thinking about this is a cousin of my Dad's that was recently in our ICU. I knew his name, but had only seen him one time, that was when my grandmother died, in 1989. I had not met his wife and knew nothing about his kids. Fortunately, I did get to know his wife and daughters while he was with us. He died Thursday night, in the ICU, and I made it an effort to be able to help with getting him prepared for the family to come in to see him and to get him ready to be taken to the funeral home.
I just cannot imagine that my grandchildren or great grandchildren (when we have them) would know each other and do what they could for the others, but I am realistic enough to know that this is what happens and that there is really no one to blame when it does occur. That's just the way life is!!!
Just just thoughts from the middle of the night
Mark