It is interesting to see our family trees grow until there are so many branches it's hard to keep track. When I think about it, I am a survivor from the earliest humans that walked the earth. Of all those people who died for childbearing age, or all those people, like me, who did not have children and did not pass on their genes. It is amazing that we have reached seven billion people on the earth. Perhaps it is time we should prune the family tree.

Sorry… Your poem got me going.

Ron

I can relate to those lines in your poem, i too have been researching family history and it does give you a link into th epast and history comes alive with your ancesters connections. God bless. Baz

Running down the branches is an amazing journey back in time and I am facsinated by your poetic take on it.
:) Janna

Your words are so full of joy, and you convey that sweetness of connection across boundaries of time ~
Happy New Year Anna!
Christine

Nice poem Anna. Been working on my family tree for the last year or so. Interesting project. Like Patrick, my branch of our tree is coming to an end, unless one of my three granddaughters retains her last name. No grandsons..... Dick

Such a magnificent tree you have.

Alas, my tree is near its end

My father's generation consisted of 5 sons and 2 daughters

Between them they mustered 3 sons including me

I never procreated, not did my cousin

My brother had girls

And so it ends (from the male chauvinist perspective)



Patrick

Very true,we are our past.It is good to know where we came from,I too search into my roots.
Have a great New Year.
Love from Kay

Anna, Your poem is wonderful, I can feel the strength in your words of a tree with deep roots..the history is great to document, my mother recently gave me a book on our family history.
Happy New Year!
Christine

~ Anna ~A beautiful poem to family of generations past. A feeling
of completness. Lady Mary Ann

Wonderfully written poetry of family and truly meaningful Laura

Your sentiments are right on. Families are multi-generational and much of who we are go beyond our immediate parents but stretch back generations. We are a multitude.

Lovely, poetic sentiments about the people who came before you and the spirit of those who still walk beside you. I feel the influence of my mother and father daily, remembering everything they told me over the years. We live to pass along their wisdom to future generations, therefore making our family tree stronger with memories and traditions. A great write, Anna.

Joy L. Hale

I find family information makes us stronger Annabel, great write.

Rose

What a wonderful feeling of family you have, Anna. I love your poem and the feeling of closeness you have with the past. That we all could have that same feeling. Happy New Year,may it be your best one yet.

And their spirits live on, for I carry them into the future

May they live on, forever.

I can always, at least almost always spot a real lady and you, Anna, my far northern, and soon to be cold friend, are a true lady and a definite complement to those that came before you. We are the sum of our parents and their parents.
Your friend, Mark