"The Story Tellers....We are the chosen ones."
(or why I am obsessed/fascinated with Genealogy.
My feelings are that 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 us. We are the story tellers
of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our
genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us - "tell our story" - and so
we do.
In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood
before now and cried.? I have lost count. How many times have I told the
ancestors "you have a wonderful family. You would be proud of us all". How
many times have I walked up to a grave and somehow felt there was love for
me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the
things I do. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to
accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to
respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up,
their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to
deep pride that they fought to make and keep us as a nation. It goes to a
deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might
be born who we are: that we might remember them. And so we do, with love
and caring and scribing each fact of their existence because we are them
and they are us.
So, as a scribe called, to tell the story of my family, it is up to that
one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place
in the long line of family story- tellers. That is why I do my family
genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put
flesh on the bones.
Love
David
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