Cruisin With Mom

My Mom, the learned-her-techie later in life mother, has a new word for the cursor, she calls it "CRUISIN" the page. Her true love is genealogy and she does so every chance she gets, sometimes in the middle of the night when she is restless, the ancestors of old call to her and she finds them jumping off the page and alive once more. The "links" to the past computer and from history, provide a world of fascination as she meets and greets those who have gone before us to make us who were are in our genes and in our budding ambitions. Thrills and chills to Mom are finding a connection from an email like one last week from a cousin who said she held her breath as Mom forwarded photos of aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents of whom she had searched for 31 years - the search had begun for this girl at the tender age of 16! It was just as exciting for Mom to supply missing pieces of this loved one's puzzle and she busily scanned all of the photos she could find and waited the response from the breathless one anticipating seeing the faces of the ancestors for whom she had searched for so long. How wonderful! How fulfilling! This is what drives Mom back to the computer in search of more hidden nuggets from the family tree!