The Sara Syndrome
I hope you have enjoyed the various articles on our shared family history, as well as the information on Tami's business, and Patti and Kim's painting.
Over the years, the decendants of Kathleen and Chester have spread out: mostly in the mid-Atlantic and down the east coast. The extended family gathers together less and less as time goes by. Gone are the holidays where we could all make a short drive to Brentwood on Mother's Day, Easter, or Christmas. Gone too are the full Carson family gatherings for birthdays, holidays, and anniversary celebrations.
This sort of hit home for me a few weeks after I started the web-site.
After sending the second Mystery Photo Monday e-mail, cousin Bernie asked me to add his two children to my e-mail distribution list. About two weeks later I received the following in response to that week's Mystery Photo e-mail:
"I don't know who they are yet, but who is this sending out the pics?" - Sara
It suddenly struck me that the descendents of Kathleen and Chester just don't know each other that well any longer. How can we? We spend time with the extended families we have developed over the years. Grandchildren now have grandchildren, and they probably struggle to keep up with their own extended families and family gatherings.
Luckily we have modern technology to shrink the distances and share information. The Internet, e-mail, blogs like the Carson Archives, digital images, overnight mail services, low-cost airlines, all make it possible for us to visit and share information in new ways.
Patti and I exchanged e-mail about this, and thought that we could learn a little about each other and have fun at the same time! We would like to start a weekly trivia e-mail where you would have to guess who the subject is. For example, I might send out an email that says:
1) This person once served in the U.S. Navy.
2) After living in several states, including Oklahoma, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., this person settled in Corydon, Indiana.
3) Known as "Red" and "Doc" by friends and family, this person once composed and published songs.
Later in the week, I could identify the person in a posting on the Carson Archives site, or in the next week's e-mail. (By the way, the subject of the above trivia is Loyd Rogers.)
If you would be interested in reading such trivia, and learning about various family members, let me know. If a number of you are interested, I'll start asking people to supply trivia on themselves and/or their family.
Over the years, the decendants of Kathleen and Chester have spread out: mostly in the mid-Atlantic and down the east coast. The extended family gathers together less and less as time goes by. Gone are the holidays where we could all make a short drive to Brentwood on Mother's Day, Easter, or Christmas. Gone too are the full Carson family gatherings for birthdays, holidays, and anniversary celebrations.
This sort of hit home for me a few weeks after I started the web-site.
After sending the second Mystery Photo Monday e-mail, cousin Bernie asked me to add his two children to my e-mail distribution list. About two weeks later I received the following in response to that week's Mystery Photo e-mail:
"I don't know who they are yet, but who is this sending out the pics?" - Sara
It suddenly struck me that the descendents of Kathleen and Chester just don't know each other that well any longer. How can we? We spend time with the extended families we have developed over the years. Grandchildren now have grandchildren, and they probably struggle to keep up with their own extended families and family gatherings.
Luckily we have modern technology to shrink the distances and share information. The Internet, e-mail, blogs like the Carson Archives, digital images, overnight mail services, low-cost airlines, all make it possible for us to visit and share information in new ways.
Patti and I exchanged e-mail about this, and thought that we could learn a little about each other and have fun at the same time! We would like to start a weekly trivia e-mail where you would have to guess who the subject is. For example, I might send out an email that says:
1) This person once served in the U.S. Navy.
2) After living in several states, including Oklahoma, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., this person settled in Corydon, Indiana.
3) Known as "Red" and "Doc" by friends and family, this person once composed and published songs.
Later in the week, I could identify the person in a posting on the Carson Archives site, or in the next week's e-mail. (By the way, the subject of the above trivia is Loyd Rogers.)
If you would be interested in reading such trivia, and learning about various family members, let me know. If a number of you are interested, I'll start asking people to supply trivia on themselves and/or their family.
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