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| Catherine Clemens Sevenau (#47082189)
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A CALLING
What calls us to find the ancestors? It goes beyond a simple curiosity. We are taken over, compelled, as if possessed by something bigger than us that's begging to be revealed. There is one of us in most every family, called to be the scribe. I'm but one of the many in the long line of storytellers of our clan. Like others I'm called to gather and assemble the ancestors—to breathe life back into them as far back as we can reach. We take what we find and chronicle the facts of their existence, remembering their names and who they were and what they did. They are the sum of who we are, for without them, we would not exist. We greet those who came before us, restoring their place in the familial line. We scribe their stories and their histories. We search for them in public libraries, county records, and weed-filled or well-kept cemeteries. We comb through yellowed newspapers, family archives, and lovely old letters and photo albums. We find them! And in finding them—we find ourselves.
Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau, Sep 2009
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I love Find A Grave. It's like Facebook for the dead. A heartfelt thanks to all the Find A Grave photographers who've fulfilled my requests for headstone pictures and to the others of you who've generously transferred your pages to me. I'm grateful for and enjoy the friendships, camaraderie, assistance and humor that passes between and among us. Your gifts have filled missing gaps, corrected many errors and answered numerous questions. My family thanks you too, as this is really a gift to them.
Anyone who fulfilled headstone requests and transferred me pages prior to Jan 2013 and have not heard back from me, please don't think me ungrateful or thoughtless; my hard drive crashed and I lost 9,000 emails of genealogy correspondence. Arrghh.
I realize I have a number of non-compliant "Burial Unknown" and am doing my best to convert them as they get entered by others by moving information over and deleting my page. I've entered them to link the family through the generations in hopes a burial location will at some point be found.
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In Memoriam:
"With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey", died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in... and then the trouble started."
Note: Sorry, sometimes I just can't stop myself... Catherine
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My brother and I are researching our family lines—he for years—I of late. Compiling four volumes, our records span from the sailings to America to our parent's generation. Our main lines:
Henry HOY, Jr. & Mary Ann SMITH
Finley McLaren CHAMBERLIN & Emily S. HOY
Isaac W. CHATFIELD & Eliza Ann HARRINGTON
Mathew Sylvester CLEMENS & Barbara NIGON
I am also working on the SEVENAU/CLEMENT/KELLOGG & MACDONALD/McCARTNEY lines.
Always happy to connect with kin and fellow researchers to compare notes. It takes a village. Other than a handful of close friends, I'm related either directly, by parallel, or by marriage to every person I hold a Find A Grave page for. Sometimes distantly—but one person leads to another and then the next thing I know I've done or added information to pages for all those folks too.
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I've thought about this: obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told how the person died.
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NOTE: If you email me and are not already in my address book, the first time out you'll get caught in my spam. Relax. I'll see you there and get your message and move it to my inbox. No need to fill out the code or get cranky with me. | |
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Michael Bell
 | Thelma Daisher
Ctherine,
Thanks for contacting me. I am sorry to say but I don't loan out memorials. I have much info on her somewhere in my files. I will add the info soon.
Michael | | | Patti Oakley - McFarlin
| RE: Hazens in Manton Cemetery, Tehama Co., CA
Hi Catherine
I am not related to the Hazens; just trying to post memorials for people searching for their connections.
Patti | | | Diane L. Medvitz
 | RE: Chatfield kin in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY
I haven't forgotten that I need to get out there and take a photo of the plot where everyone is buried; our weather has been horrible --- rain, rain, rain
| | | D. Conley
| Michael Arnsberger
Please read note under the photo on Michael Arnsberger. The dates are not the correct dates for your request. Please let me know if you want it removed. Thanks! | | | Ivan Waddell
| Photo Request for Jane Thompson
Hi Cathy: I went to Middlefield Cemetery, Middlefield, OH. this morning. I found the lot where Jane should be buried, but there was no individual marker for her. Edward's stone was there. I took a photo of their main tomb stone and will post it to both of their memorials. Edward's individual stone is already on Find A Grave.
Hope this helps.
Ivan Waddell | | | irene sylvester
| date transposition
Memorial 44799539 you have transposed the numbers for the marriage of John & Anna. Thought you would like to know. | | | Brenda King
 | William Wisenor
I tried e-mailing you but it got sent back to me. Evidently I have to fill out a form for it to get to you and I really don't want to.
Here is what the e-mail said: I am happy to transfer information over. I wish I could give you an exact grave location but I know who can. I do remember taking the picture for this marker because it was so tiny and I do seem to remember that it was in the south/east part of the cemetery, not far from where the office is. Contact SeaCowz at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=47461955 for more information. He has written a book about the cemetery and has more information on everyone buried in the Los Banos Cemetery.
I'm glad I could transfer this over to family/near family.
| | | Kathy & Tanya
 | william millard
I changed his middle name to haley.. as I reread catherine stow's obit..I feel her son who wrote the obit should know what his brother's middle name was... kathy | | | Marie searching
 | RE: Abram Reuban Daman
Thank you so much, happy to meet you cousin :) Abram is my 3 great grandpa. I just love all you've done, and the linking all of the memorials, excellent work! Now I have to go update my tree with the wealth of info. You Rock! | | | Grothmann
 | Cunningham
Hi:
When I looked around the area, I didn't find any other Cunninghams. There are some others at Memory Gardens, but I couldn't determine if they were related. Sorry.
Dale | | | | [View all messages...] |
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