THE QUIGLEY/MELVIN FAMILY TREE
THE QUIGLEY/MELVIN FAMILY TREEUpdated October 5, 2003 | BERNIE & GAILQUIGLEY 2895 Glenlake Rd Victoria,BC V9B 4A9 Canada 250-478-0627 [email protected] |
WHY WE ARE DOING ALL THIS RESEARCH? We are the chosen. In each family there is one called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes.Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. Finding them, we find ourselves.How many graves have I stood before and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us."How many times have we walked up to a grave and felt there was love there for us? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do.It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying, I can't let this happen.These are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their families. It goes to deep pride that fathers fought and died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep understanding that they did it for us. And equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth. Without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. We are they, and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scrive called, with love and care, We tell the story of our families.In the next generation, another will answer the call, and take our place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why we do our family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory, and greet those whom we had never known before. |
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