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From: "sarah rose" <>
Subject: Gen Mothers Day Poem
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:41:25 -0700

This genealogy poem is my gift to everyone for Mother's Day. I think many of you will be able to relate to it. (My poetry has been published in 47 US States, and several other countries.
My Poetry Website:
http://users.rosenet.net/poetryandroses/
(This remains one of my favorite poems)

MY ANCESTOR GRAND MOTHER




I search for you yet do not even know your name

I press on praying my efforts will prove fruitful

the records do not list you or the other women who

have lived and loved and laughed, gave birth, and died,

the records perpetrate the myth that you were never here

but I stand whole and bare my soul

and vow to find you as I live



I search for you in old records, in churches, at the Embassy,

in small dimly lit rooms

in the back of obscure libraries and archives

and pour over barely readable handwritten ledgers

with magnifying glass and flashlight

I live on mainly toast these days

there isn't time for meals or much sleep

feeling as I always do, on the very brink of discovery



Perhaps THIS will be the day I find the one

seemingly insignificant clue, which will lead me to you

although I did not find you listed in the Census Records

I am not deterred, you may turn up yet,

on an Immigration or Naturalization list somewhere perhaps,

or maybe tucked away inside some bank of vital statistics,

long forgotten like so many others,

your name having become lost over the long years



Your name could be lying even now

amidst the millions of documents stored and locked away

safeguarded in the bowels of a giant warehouse

all stopped up from apathetic crowds

who have long ceased their visits

your precious name, lying just inside

a myriad of records packed in tight, packed in to stay

never guessing I would come



@Sarah Elizabeth Rose

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