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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 51852, member: 44&quot;]I meant to reply to your excellent observation sooner. My family, both sides, were very much family oriented with a keen sense of history and genealogy. Family stories were a part of everyday life. They were told over the dinner table continuously. The funniest one were told over and over at the big gatherings of Thanksgiving and Xmas.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was never considered &quot;taboo&quot; to recount stories of the departed - the funnier the better. It was our heritage. I have been with many many people who never talk about their dear departed parents, grandparents, etc... They almost act like it was a sacrilege! We always thought it was a tribute to dear ones to recount stories about them. In a way it kept them alive in our minds. I have vivid memories of my grandparents and their siblings recounting tales of their great grandparents and grandparents that they remembered and of course they remembered stories their grandparents told.</p><p><br /></p><p>That woman (message #60) was a great aunt of my grandmother&#039;s. My grandmother remembered her aunts and uncles telling about the woman&#039;s sad life. Also a genealogy was written about that family line. The picture was in a c1900 photo album of my great aunt - a sister of my grandmother&#039;s. This great aunt lived to be 98. She was married, but never was able to have children. She and her husband did raise a couple of his orphaned nephews. As I am the only great granddaughter of the line, she passed the album on to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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