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Discussion Group.
IF YOU COULD SEE YOUR ANCESTORS,
ALL STANDING IN A ROW,
WOULD YOU BE REALLY PROUD OF THEM,
OR DON'T YOU REALLY KNOW ?
SOME STRANGE DISCOVERIES ARE MADE,
IN CLIMBING FAMILY TREES,
AND SOME OF THEM, I'M SURE DO NOT,
PARTIC-U-LARLY PLEASE.
IF YOU COULD SEE YOUR ANCESTORS,
ALL STANDING IN A ROW,
THERE MIGHT BE SOME OF THEM PERHAPS,
YOU WOULDN'T CARE TO KNOW.
BUT THERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION,
WHICH PRESENTS A DIFFERENT VIEW,
IF YOU COULD MEET YOUR ANCESTORS,
WOULD THEY BE PROUD OF YOU ?
ANON
Credits:-
"[This poem was] respectfully submitted with rhyme enhancements by:
Mel Oshins [to the soc.genealogy.jewish Newsgroup]".
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Another Food for Thought(Quotation):"You must be a real necrophile to do work like this !"
AMNON,my teacher at a genealogy course at Beth Hatfutsoth(Diaspora Museum)-Tel Aviv