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Left, the late Hripsime Kassarjian, Debra (Ridge) Badeer and the late Marie (Kassarjian)
Badeer in Omaha for Christmas, 1980. |
In response to some emails that I sent to family members {far and wide} I have been blessed to receive support, encouragement, and notes on various family members to help fill out character sketches. The second most popular response is: "Too bad you didn't start this when {insert name here} was still around! They could have been a wealth of information for your project."
This is, of course, undeniably true. On the other hand, when all is right with the world and our loved ones gather around the Thanksgiving table again, like always, do we really think about life without them? Do we anticipate losing our family history to a head injury or a hip replacement? I didn't. Not that day, or the next one, or the next one.
The desire to preserve family history was born out of grief. Let's be honest, that's when it matters: when so-and-so is gone from us.
I want our whole family, present and future generations, to know the people that aren't around anymore. That's why this project was born. Life is short... tragically short sometimes. This is one small way to make it last a little bit longer...
