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I would love to do this for my family and have toyed with the idea for years. My aunt, who I'm very close to, has started a family tree of her own, on my uncle's side, so she has a small piece of the puzzle already. When some of my family members began to pass away (grandmother and father, 2 great-aunts) I felt sad to think that some stories were lost with their passing. I have very little time so I have never sat down and started this. Also in Portugal it's not as easy as we don't have that many resources, particularly online like you do in the US. But I agree that it's a fascinating little adventure to find out where you come from and who your relatives were.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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