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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jun 21 2008 : 7:50:16 PM
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daughter wednesday and i were watching a travel tv program tonight on public television . and it was on HUNGARY .. which is where wedensday's dad and her husband's mother and father's families come from. it was quite beautiful .. with castles and beautiful historic buildings and countryside .. and we started talking about her heritage and ancestors and that most of them had lived there .. and here, today is her and her beautiful children .. all oweing their existence in part to people that we willnever know anything about .. all having been lost to 'time'. (as will be all of us and our 'fate' at some time in the future). of course, some of her 'roots' reach to Scotland and England on my dad's side of the family .. and from England on my mother's side.
isn't it amazing to think of who and what our great, great, great, great ancestors were like!
AND .. i thought of how incredible other countries and cultures are that i'll never even know or visit. life is so amazing.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 21 2008 : 8:28:25 PM
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Frannie,
it is so true. I was adopted at the age of nine - my bio mom and sisters are beautiful blue eyed blondes, rather petite and then there is me......dark, round, dark eyes. When I met my bio dad nad his family for the 1st time in my late 20's... I walked into a house full of dark eyed, round, Greek women..... and I laughted.. they all looked just like me..... So amazing!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 22 2008 : 06:36:30 AM
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renee .. did you get a lot of 'family history and stories' from them? i have an adopgted daughter .. i actually found her birth father's family .. (he had already passed away) .. the family did not know where the mother was .. she left with my daugher when she was only 6 months old and they were surprized that she had given her up for adoption. kristen (my daughter) never really cared about following up with them. she said she had her family. i told her that sometimes it is a good thing to know family history (especially the mothers) .. to this day she has never contacted them .. and that was a good 20 years ago.
i lost contact with my own mother's family when i was a child. re-connected the year i turned 50. i soooo wanted to hear her 'stories' .. how grande and glorious it was reuniting with them.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
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Posted - Jun 23 2008 : 05:27:57 AM
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I love hearing your stories. I have done a little geneaolgy myself it is very interesting. Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 http://farmgirlingastyle.blogspot.com/ |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2008 : 07:26:49 AM
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Frannie,
I did! I do understand your daughters feelings as well... My mom died when I was nine.. and I had memories that I needed to pursue.. I didnt have a need for finding a parent....I dont see much of my bio family, but they did write down a lot of thier geneology and family stories for me. My mom was English and native American..... and bio dad was/is Greek Gypsie....Very Interresting!I certainly have the gypsie thing down :)
I also adopted one of my sons... we talk very openly about it.. I express that my belief is that God can use any method he choses to bring a child to a mom.. and God chose to have another women carry him, but that he was always intented to be mine................he knows that I will honor whatever it is that he needs as far a meeting his bio family or not... everyone is different.. so we will see...
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
1599 Posts
Winona
Central Oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 23 2008 : 09:39:25 AM
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When I was in Scotland, I looked up some of my kin and was surprised to find out that my ancesters were brigands and baddies to boot!! My kin actually kidnapped the king of Scotland and held him for a while till they got a ransom. I also found out that if someone asked you for help, you had to give it or they could kill you. It was okay to rob and steal from others, they did it to you, but to deny help when asked?? Not happening, you must help them!!
Actually, now that I know my real family better, I think it probably would have been better if I had just gone on thinking they were caring, good people. Getting disabused of my ideals has kind of done me in a bit. But, me being me, just HAD to know...
Winona ;-)
When you lose, don't lose the lesson!!
http://goneriding.wordpress.com/
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2008 : 10:37:05 AM
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rene .. so you know the sweet poem:
"not flesh of my flesh ..nor bone of my bone"
but never forget for a single minute ..
even though you didn't grow under my heart
... you grew in it".
i used to tell that to kristen .. she loved it . she was two when we adopted her and i always called her 'darlin' 'dopted daughter ... so that she would know tht the workd 'adopted' went right along with 'darling'. she also loved that.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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