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To: Red Badger

God bless her! My great grandmother lived to be 107, born in 1880. My biggest regret was not talking to her and recording all the amazing changes she saw: the invention of flight, movies, cars, etc.


17 posted on 11/11/2022 7:41:21 AM PST by reegs
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To: reegs
My great grandmother lived to be 107, born in 1880. My biggest regret was not talking to her and recording all the amazing changes she saw: the invention of flight, movies, cars, etc.

I think most people live to regret that. I know I do. By the time me and my cousins started to get interested in family history, a lot of the old folks that knew the stories were gone. The ones that were left either couldn't remember or didn't want to talk about it. A lot of my family records are in Spanish because they are in the California mission archives. Almost none of my generation is fluent in Spanish so we're kind of stymied there. We can only go so far back. If the old folks in your family are still around, don't pass up your chance to talk to them. You might not be interested now, but you will be later and so will your descendants.

21 posted on 11/11/2022 8:36:25 AM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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