Ever wonder where some middle names come from?

This is my great-grandfather, on my father's side, Bernard Farren Wait.

Some years ago, when Paul and I first got interested in doing Geneology, I got in touch with my grandfather's sister's son and his wife. Ann had been doing work on the Wait side of the family for years and gave us a large notebook filled with information. One of the things she gave us was an excerpt from a book called "Early Days of Turners Falls."

It is an article written about a man named Bernard Farren, and mostly what I want you to read are the last two paragraphs.

I was so excited when I read this. My great great-grandfather, Henry Wait, named his first son after his boss, Bernard Farren. It was the captured conversation, though, between Barney Farren and Henry Wait that made it so personal.

This just reinforces my thoughts about how important it is to record every day life. It doesn't matter which way you choose to do it; blogging, scrapbooking, photo books, or writing it down in a notebook. Just do it!