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Thursday, 08 January 2015

On Genealogy

By Marc Leavitt of Marc Leavitt's Blog

How neat, I thought, that it would be,
To trace my genealogy,
To know the names, the times and how
My family grew, from then, to now.

The chart looked like a pyramid;
I put my name on top, I did.
Below I wrote in Mom and Dad,
The closest relatives I had.

Next, grandparents, four in all,
My parents’ parents, I recall.
And then the “greats,” eight in number;
No time now to think of slumber.

The second “greats” equal sixteen,
More relatives than I’d foreseen,
Until I got to “great, great, greats”;
All thirty-two, both men and mates.

I need to slow my search a while;
Took time to add them to the file;
Left room for uncles, cousins, aunts,
Part of the crowd my birth enhanced.


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Comments

Do you have actual names for the triple greats?

For those who may be interested, I traced my ancestry back to my great-great-great-grandfather, on my father's side, who was born in 1790.

Have you thought about writing your own life story (a memoir)? I think it's important to pass along the thread of life from one generation to another. It gives the younger generation a sense of time and place. They can feel they're part of a bigger picture and realize they are who they are because of those that came before them.

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