May the Force be with you.

Starting now, wow. Government is discussing loss of SS benefits. Do not like news anymore. It seems hurt and pain is on a major rise. So have you checked SS records for ancestors information? Have you looked at State records, covering events, places and o those in needbeing saved. Did you realize our ancestors had to build the road in front of their property, so long ago. They also as community built later gave water ttheir bridges and homes many and most times from scratch. They had to maintain them also. Was upset the other day, our government did not want people to fix things to save time and money or sounded like we were not to care. Just charge more, more and more. When young I was a Volunteer Firefighter. Our neighbors barn was on fire. He was at the other end of barn milking cows. Dad was running to the barn to save him and the cows. I was banging on the house door for family to wake up. We passed water buckets and Ultimately we saved most of the cows, the house and lost the barn and corral. When young we learned a shovel and dirt could slow down fire, sometimes better than water. Living in a country envirionment we learned we may be the next in need, whether it was a sudden broken bone, cut hand or leg etc. Sometimes it was just flu or twisted ankle or older age. One learns if someone is in need you step up best you can. We as Americans should remember that from our experiences from WW 2 ON.s Worse a later War brought much unhappy feelings. Thinking our country has not gotten over it even yet. We are blessed, our neighbors are caring. Our community has changed much over the years. I apply much of what I have seen in my neighborhood to how I feel families worked and shared and communicated in days of old. Remember no phone, no tv, some radio and later movies that at half time showed clips of our war. We need to think of our youth and how things were to help us resolve some of our Genealogical issues. Hoping this insight may help your researching in smaller communities even larger ones.