Comments on: Great memories http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/02/09/great-memories/ Same old blog, brand new place Fri, 24 May 2013 04:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jim Russell http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/02/09/great-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-133750 Jim Russell Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:07:43 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/?p=1273#comment-133750 About the "distance that grows as families fan out acrosss time and generations" -- this is where I find social networks like Facebook to be invaluable. Of 134 Facebook friends, 64 are relatives. I've found second cousins in Canada that I haven't seen since Expo 67. Cousins who are still in Ireland. And we're all conversing like we haven't in years. My 82-year-old dad is on the network, as is my 14-year-old daughter. Perhaps the distance of time and generations may lessen. It has for us. About the “distance that grows as families fan out acrosss time and generations” — this is where I find social networks like Facebook to be invaluable. Of 134 Facebook friends, 64 are relatives. I’ve found second cousins in Canada that I haven’t seen since Expo 67. Cousins who are still in Ireland. And we’re all conversing like we haven’t in years. My 82-year-old dad is on the network, as is my 14-year-old daughter. Perhaps the distance of time and generations may lessen. It has for us.

]]> By: Susan Kitchens http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/02/09/great-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-129185 Susan Kitchens Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:07:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/?p=1273#comment-129185 Condolences to you and your family, Doc. I wish all of you a good time together when you gather, remember, cry and laugh. To your "we're the next round of geezers" comment, I had a recent conversation with my mom (born in 32, so between greatest gen+boomers) wherein she talked of being among the oldest with the repository of family history/knowledge in her head -- she wants to get it out of her head and passed on to us younger 'uns. Mom's comments came in response to <a href="http://familyoralhistory.us/articles/view/mailbag_qa_i_want_to_interview_my_parents/" rel="nofollow">a question I was asked about whether or not visiting</a> relatives to record stories of family history is tantamount to a declaration <em>you're on your deathbed</em> Last night I posted the Q & A -- small Q, lots of A. It touches on remembrance and (possible) regret. BTW, in a past Carnival of Genealogy that I hosted on the same site, <a href="http://familyoralhistory.us/news/view/genealogy_carnival_12/" rel="nofollow">I linked to several of your posts</a> where you remember family members, much in the same way you are doing here. Condolences to you and your family, Doc. I wish all of you a good time together when you gather, remember, cry and laugh.

To your “we’re the next round of geezers” comment, I had a recent conversation with my mom (born in 32, so between greatest gen+boomers) wherein she talked of being among the oldest with the repository of family history/knowledge in her head — she wants to get it out of her head and passed on to us younger ‘uns.

Mom’s comments came in response to a question I was asked about whether or not visiting relatives to record stories of family history is tantamount to a declaration you’re on your deathbed Last night I posted the Q & A — small Q, lots of A. It touches on remembrance and (possible) regret.

BTW, in a past Carnival of Genealogy that I hosted on the same site, I linked to several of your posts where you remember family members, much in the same way you are doing here.

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