My husband of 49 years passed away April 1, 2025

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If You Could See Your Ancestors

A Poem by Nellie Winslow Simmons Randall

If you could see your ancestors

All standing in a row,

Would you be proud of them or not?

Or don't you really know?

Some strange discoveries are made

In climbing family trees.

And some of them, you know,

Do not particularly please.

If you could see your ancestors

All standing in a row,

There might be some of them perhaps

You shouldn't care to know.

But here's another question

Which requires a different view -

If you could meet your ancestors

Would they be proud of you?

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I take my free time and add people of all races and places. Just where ever I find obituaries or death certificates.