Ellen Goodman is a columnist for the Boston Globe her column Sunday was "The secrets buried under my family tree." The secret is that her grandparents married just five months before her Mother was born. I really liked this paragraph.
But what we really want from the generations past are not just the facts or the DNA. We want the stories. Love, passion, success, disappointment, humanity. There may be no way to know - really know- their interior life. But how many of us would trade in the data for one good diary?
I don't know how long the link work but this is the column.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/04/18/the_secrets_buried_under_a_family_tree/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ellen+Goodman+columns
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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