MY DEAR OLD AUNT

AnnetteR · Post by **AnnetteR** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:17 pm

Isn’t it sometimes just the simplest of things that make you dance around the room with joy?

At Xmas I decided to give my Aunt (aged 84 years) a book report of her ancestors together with a relationship list as the book report itself doesn’t include everybody and can be confusing even to me who compiled it. She was delighted and phoned to thank me. We talked for almost two hours during which time all sorts of information was coming to light that I had never heard before. How I wish I had taped that conversation. Anyway, she did her Miss Marple bit and put me in touch with a cousin who is the granddaughter of my grandfather’s sister. Imagine my delight to receive an e-mail from this newfound cousin containing photographs of my Great Grandparents, whom I had never seen before, and a photograph of my Great Aunt with her children. To finally be able to put faces to those names I had spent hours and £££’s on finding was the icing on the cake. I’m sure we all conjure up images of our ancestors but to actually see them in the flesh is quite something else. My new cousin now is of course ‘hooked’ and is forwarding more detail from yet another cousin.

God bless my dear old aunt.

The moral of this story is – talk and more importantly ‘listen’ to your ‘old’ aunties and uncles while you are still lucky enough to have them around and I don’t just mean for genealogical purposes.

Cheers from a very happy bunny otherwise know as

Annette R

Post by **joette** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:02 pm

Wonderful & so true.I had a tape with my very lucid Granny at ninety telling us about her life,parentage & ancestry.Some things I didn't know.
Littlest brother taped Duran Duran or some such drivel over it.
I have a list she made of "Auld Scots Words" & their meanings-I have it somewhere safe & if I could only remember where???

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:51 pm

Hello Annette

$\:D/$ Good news indeed!! Your post makes me think that not only should TalkingScot have a clapping contest for all the posters on our forum....what about all the truly unseen rellies out there hiding behind each and every one of us??

I say let's give the dear old aunties and all the others a round as well.... =D>=D>=D>=D>=D>=D> !

Thanks for sharing!
Jean

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:54 pm

Thanks, Annette R for sharing that excellent news with us.

What pleasure you gave your Aunt too.

Kind regards

Catriona