Just an Old Photo

Just an old Photo, well it is a photo of my Great Aunt Dana Kindred. taken about 1896.
I guess this photo would be one the oldest things I own. To you it would not mean anything, but to me it is a part of who I am. 
I always am thinking why I do certain things, why I am a proud American, what is the reason that I tried to teach my children the things I did.
As parents we try to raise our kids with values, morals, common sense  and quite a few other things.
Some of the things they learn, some they don't, but we give it our best shot.
There are generic things passed down from generation to generation. The color of our eyes, our hair.
I have blue eyes, my maternal grandfather had blue eyes, his father had blue eyes. My grand daughter is left handed, as is my daughter, so am I. My father was left handed and his father was.
Now back to the photo of my great aunt.
I really do not know much about her. My father told me how much he loved her, how sweet she was.
I do know she was buried at Los Alamos, National Cemetery.
One thing I  know is that some of those same morals, values, and common sense that she was taught, were things that her mother and father taught her, as they did her brother, who is my grandfather, who passed them on to my dad who passed them on to me, which I passed to my children, and I hope they passed on to theirs.
Even not ever meeting my Aunt Dana I know we are connected by more than blood. 
Genealogy is more than tracing our ancestors, It is our history of  what made us who we are not only as a person, but how we think, act, and respond the way we do.
You ever think " I am turning into my mom, or my dad!"  So when you think of your Family Genealogy there is more to it than a bunch of old family members. Pass on your family values. Pass on your family stories. 
Most of all Pass them on.