Mahatma

these are very comforting words Linda!   i am very sorry for your loss!

Linda, this is a really beautiful and introspective poem!  well done 🙂

a great band for sure!

I really liked this one Linda.  I read it more than once.  🙂

Harry's Inn always has great wings.  but i am a mild guy.  cant handle the spice! 

Beautiful poetry Linda I really enjoyed reading it.    🙂

PS.  Also  A friend shows up to help you move!  🙂

Thank you LR.  I really appreciate your input!  Will definitely reach out if I have any questions.   🙂
 

edit. Just reread your post. Holy moly.  That was a lot to digest.  Thank you for sharing.  I enjoyed reading it. Gonna read it again.  🙂. Wow. 

21 hours ago, Linda Roorda said:

Good for you!! It sure is fun and exciting!! And nice to have some of the footwork already done for you, plus making contact/friendships with extended rellies!  But I have to add, part of my thesis for being able to have 3 articles published in the N.Y. Genealogical & Biographical Record was proving some data wrong that folks had believed to be correct, along with putting family data together that no one else had done. Keep reading each series in this section as I talk about it.  I spent many Saturday mornings at Steele Library's genealogy section which holds the NYGBR that my articles are published in.  I always wanted to go back and tell the workers thanks for their holdings which assisted me 🙂

are you saying that i am adopted?   🙂 

30 minutes ago, Linda Roorda said:

It sure is Mahatma!! Very addicting 🙂  I assume you've "been there and done that" with your ancestry?  I've been out of research work for several years, once upon a time being a walking encyclopedia of my mom's early New Netherlands' Dutch, Palatine Deutsch/Swiss, and New England Scots-Irish ancestry.  But now enjoy helping beginners with these articles that were from my past newspaper column, providing a few extra tips for anyone needing them, just as friends/distant relatives helped me along my journey 🙂 

i went on ancestry.com years ago and was able to find a treasure trove of information.  very fun and exciting process and yes others had done a lot of the work all i had to do was follow the green leaf 🙂 

This is a fun rabbit hole to go down.  🙂 

Nice!  Now this is the content I came for!  🙂