Yes, I realize it’s not Saturday and yes, I realize I am two days late, but as my mom used to say: Better late than never.

I always look forward to Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.

This week’s challenge was more challenging than most of the topics and I considered whether I was going to even attempt it, as I knew I wouldn’t be happy with my final product without multiple revisions.

Here is last Saturday’s topic:

1)  Write your own “Where I’m From” poem – you can see a sample format at   http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm.  But make it unique – yours!

Even with a template, I didn’t find this easy, so I took the short way out with two line verses. I consider this to be a rough draft that I likely won’t ever finish!

Where Linda Is From

I am from Passaic, an inner city melting pot of which I am part
Dutch, English, German, Irish, Italian, Greek and Slovak

Factories, ethnic foods, buses, downtown shopping
Stickball, stilts, dodgeball and bicycles

I am from Pilgrims and Puritans, Congregationalists and Quakers
Lutherans, Presybterians, Roman Catholics and Greek Catholics

I am from hardy immigrants – fishermen, mariners and carpenters
Businessmen and women, ministers, peasant farmers and storekeepers

I am from Ujak and Hajtovka, Copenhagen, and Öved
Ippollitts, Bures St. Mary, Parrtown and Sussex Vale

I am from families, big and small
I am but a small leaf on my family tree.

Thank you, Randy, for a different kind of topic, but I hope next week’s challenge is easier!