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Skriven 2014-12-02 20:14:16 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 19986 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sunday dinners
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> families in the same generation...  :)

 RH> I know my first name has been used for a first cousin's middle name,
 RH> brother. Yes, it is fun figuring out where the name came from, who has
 RH> it and what relationships to others who have the same name.

 NB> Most of the names of my siblings came down from previous generations,
 NB> one way or another... And in turn, they've named their kids using the
 NB> same family names, sometimes for other reasons than being for the one
 NB> already carrying the name.  We have multiple Robs and Robins and
 NB> Lydia/Lidias and Johns and Rebekahs and Richards, and even more
 NB> duplication in middle (not used) names... My sister Lydia was partly
 NB> named for our great-grandmother, and I think she got that family's
 NB> silver flatware...   :)

We don't have too many with the same name. Helps that we're so scattered
and Dad got married so much later than his older brother & sister. All
of their kids (my cousins) seemed to be of my folk's generation when I
was a kid, and most were closer to them than me and my siblings. My
sister Lisa got a double family name--corruption of Elise and her middle
name was a last name on my mom's side, I think my maternal great
grandfather's side. I don't know who will get my grandmother's silver at
this point.

 NB>  RH>> And a big pot of chowder both times as I recall. My younger
 NB> brother is  RH>> supposed to, at some time, go out to WI to get the
 NB> family chowder pot.  NB>> No one in that branch of the family is
 NB> interested in keeping it...?

 RH> They're daughtered out--one cousin not married; sister was married,
 RH> now divorced and final sister broke her engagement to long time
 RH> fiancee--so far. Things could change but I'm not too sure at this
 RH> point.

 NB> So less interest perhaps in keeping family traditions/heirlooms...

Apparantly so. Don't know how much Don will use it but he'll have the
room to stow the pot.

 NB>  RH>> Don't know if he'll ever make any, Mom's copy of the recipe is
 NB>  RH>> somewhere in the house but we don't know where.
 NB>  NB>> If it's still in the house, it'll turn up eventually...  :)

 RH> Who knows at this point--it may have gotten tossed out inadvertantly
 RH> or when somebody was going thru a pile of books/papers. It would be
 RH> nice if it did, but I'm not too optimistic at this point.

 NB> You never know.  :)

I don't, and hope that it will show up at some point.


 NB>  NB>> And, maybe, when Don goes to pick up the pot, he can ask for a
 NB>  NB>> copy of their copy of the recipe..   :)

 RH> Yes, and we'll get it from him, put it into electronic format.

 NB> And then you'll have it, too... and be a source to retrieve it from,
 NB> should it go missing (again)...   :)

As long as the storage and retrieval format is compatable with the
current technology, we'll be fine. Once one of them changes, all bets
are off as to being able to access the recipies.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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