Hi to all and a Happy New Year!

Below is a poem that I wrote to encourage the further pursuit of going over the
"wall."

Fred M. Fariss

                        The Landscape

                         Fred M. Fariss

I look over the landscape of genealogy
To discover the footprints
Of those who went before me -
My ancestors.

I am awed by their feeble attempt
To speak to me
Through their paper trails, photographs and hearsay
Of where and how they lived.

When I meet with them
At the threshold of history
The discovery is so exciting
To re-connect.

With those whom I have never seen
And some whom I never knew existed
It is a family reunion
On the plains of imagination.

It is like meeting them
This side of heaven
Before the grand finale
Of personal passage.

The sad note is -
The wall
That stands as a divider
Between me and them, yet to be discovered.

There is always hope
Of another discovery
Today - maybe - tomorrow
On the landscape of genealogy.
                                                           (C)2000 Fred M. Fariss
Al Rights Reserved




Ann Avery Hunter wrote:

> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > At the instant it changes to 1/1/2001 those persons born before 1/1/1901 will
> > be the first documented persons ever to have lived in THREE Centuries AND TWO
> > Millenniums. Any disbelievers out there, or persons with proof of this
> > happening before? Tim Spradling
>
> My father is one of them, but STILL undocumented if you can believe it.
> VA wasn't keeping birth records in 1900, and he was born in Sept., after
> the census was taken.
>
> Ann
> --
> Ann Avery Hunter
> Richmond, Virginia
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