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I have been working on a book that goes back into the 1800´s and is based on the lives of my two grandmothers who each raised three children on their own during the depression. Their stories were tragic in their own ways, but nonetheless tragic. I would like people to know about the women during those hard times who survived each day, spent summers sleeping on parkbenches so they could afford shelter in the winter. Winter shelter was often simple walls with no heat in the coldest part of the country. I see lazy people who whine and complain about not getting enough welfare and I wonder how people are expected to develop character when nothing is expected of them.

Hmmmm.....that came out of your comments about working on family history! Good for you! And I hope you write it all down in detail for future generations.

I have scanned many documents, visited many cemeteries (Ohio, Missouri and Texas)made copies of pictures.

The biggest problem with genealogy is that we do not get interested until after many of the best resourses are gone. I should have made a trip to Texas while my grandfather was still living. But I did go there for a great-uncle's 100th birthday.

What I collect now, the younger generation looks at it and says 'how nice'. At least someday, they will know that I have lots of info.

Get busy on your book!!! What is tragic is the number of women (our grandmothers) who lost their lives during childbirth.