I feel sure that my numerous family, friends, and other admirers have missed me the last week or so. Jan and I went to Oregon to visit her family and Anne (Deceased brother Dean's widow ) . We had a fine time seeing mostly relatives but here the problem begins.
Anne, my sister in law has 12 children, most of them married and producing
children of their own in great numbers. Now these children are mostly middle aged, married, and all producing more children. Some of these kids are also married and seem tp be producing a 4th generation. These are alot of people and my memory is getting a bit fuzzy. To further complicate matters, Anne comes from a family of 9 children who are producing children who are producing children.
Jan comes from a family of 9 who have produced children who have produced
children ,etc, etc.
There are lots of people invilved here. Deceased brother Toti (Teo as his now Argentine family called him) also had five kids and they are also prolific as are their children, etc, etc.
How sad it is that we are on the verge of losing track of these relatives. Many of them don't even know that Jan and I exist, any more than we know them. My kids probably have 50+ first cousins and they only know a few of them.
I have tried to partially correct this situation by creating a family tree on the computer. It goes back , as far as I am able to ascertain, five generations and then it gets too fuzzy. Now it is fuzzy two and three generations forward. For simplicity's sake I have chopped off whole branches of periferal family members who seem too remote. I also have some written family histories of long dead people. Pretty fascinating reading in some cases.
Maybe one of my kids will like to get my stuff some day when the unthinkable
happens to me. Its all here at that time for whoever volunteers to carry on.
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Wow, I remember my trip to Oregon, meeting the Carter clan at a big family reunion and suddenly feeling like our little branch of the family was just really...tiny.
I wish I had a little free time to spend on the family tree. I suppose later, when I retire, maybe?
P.S. I am blogging again.
Indeed, we missed you and your witty blogs. But we are happy to have you back, all safe and sound, where you may once again share your wit and wisdom with the rest of us.
Miss you we did. I called once, just to chat, as it had been a while since your visit here. You were, of course, not there. Then found out from Amy you were in Portland. Glad you had a good time, and I bet you are glad to be back as well!
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