http://www.rickleonard.net/2009/09/with-a-trembling-heart/ Leonard Family History Thu, 02 May 2013 21:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.rickleonard.net/2009/09/with-a-trembling-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Jeanie Brown Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:05:54 +0000 http://www.rickleonard.net/?p=1571#comment-439 Genealogy is often cut and dried. This letter puts the humanity into the research. Every person I 'enter' into my database is handled with respect and emotion. They are gone. Often there is no one who actually 'remembers' them. Their tracks are left on Census records, Church documents, etc. Those tracks bring them back to our 'memories'. They live again. Another generation 'knows' them. This letter is more than a track, indeed, a trembling heart. Genealogy is often cut and dried. This letter puts the humanity into the research. Every person I ‘enter’ into my database is handled with respect and emotion. They are gone. Often there is no one who actually ‘remembers’ them. Their tracks are left on Census records, Church documents, etc. Those tracks bring them back to our ‘memories’. They live again. Another generation ‘knows’ them. This letter is more than a track, indeed, a trembling heart.

]]> http://www.rickleonard.net/2009/09/with-a-trembling-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Rick Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:10:20 +0000 http://www.rickleonard.net/?p=1571#comment-431 I thought so, but I'm a little closer to the subject matter than some. ;-) I thought so, but I’m a little closer to the subject matter than some.

]]> http://www.rickleonard.net/2009/09/with-a-trembling-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Lance Leonard Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:28:14 +0000 http://www.rickleonard.net/?p=1571#comment-430 Fascinating! Fascinating!

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