Genealogy comes to him who stands and waits

Thursday, December 15, 2005

My family tree has always interested me, mildly, but never to the extent of putting me in that mob that, so we're told, has raised genealogy to the secondmostpopular American pastime. (The first seems to be NASCAR, which I find even harder to imagine.) Already I seemed to know more than most beginning family tree climbers. Ancestral lore was common knowledge, it seems, in my family, the stuff of visits and reunions. And I was fortunate, I suppose, in falling heir to the labors of other family members, at least one of whom was bound and determined to get into the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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