I have noticed that many schoolchildren do projects on their family trees and go around asking about their ancestors. I always thought that my grandchildren would certainly have any easy time of it, because of all my research. Then I realized that my ancestors are only one-fourth of theirs and maybe their other family members might not have the information readily available. So today, I called my daughter-in-laws' parents and asked them to send me all the info they knew about their ancestors. I'm adding that, along with my ex-husband's, to my genealogy program, so there will be a central repository for the grandchildren. Even if their information is not as extensive as mine, it's a good start.

Also, it seemed to spark an interest in genealogy in at least one of them, who is now retired and has always wanted to research her ancestors, but just never had the time before. She said, obviously, this was a message to "get cracking." One hundred years from now, certainly one of my descendants will be thanking me!

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