What do you do to impress people?

Now I ran across this thread in reddit.com last night and I thought it would be an good one for here also....it wasn't what I expected over there but totally fascinating. I thought maybe someone would say they wore an special pair ot tennis shoes or some such...drove an fabulous car. NO...what was it they put down...how to do the Ian Knot for tying your shoes....how to open beer bottles...everything from an tianian wedding ring, to the table edge, to two bottles together...so you always have another one ready to go, and BTW...full instrutions were included...there was juggling...there was putting out an match with one finger...and even opening your car with your remote car key unit using your chin....  So I thought....what do you do to impress others?

Some might recall a WW2  B-17 incident I've been researching for many years when 2 B-17's of the 306BG based at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire collided near where I live and 16 of the 18 USAAF airmen were killed. Recently a retired US Navy officer got in touch as by chance, he was researching soldiers from his area killed in WW2, one of whom was the tail gunner on one of the B-17s.  Out of interest and background for him I looked at this young man's family background and got back to the mid-1600s in the Colonies---Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, and one of his grand dad's was a Captain during the American Revolution; something you don't come across every day.  Actually, the family starts in cornwall in the early 1600s when they left for the Colonies.

Sent this chap a write up of the family tree and his reply tonight was-----"I appreciate this very much!  You made this look really easy, but I can only guess how much effort you put into it.  I am truly impressed."

Well, I hope it adds to his storys about local WW2 war heros he is researching; this young man was only 19 and been in England for only 2 months when this accident happened. 

That was an nice story Paul..what was the fella's surname if I might ask...as I have an memory and an half when it comes to genenalogy...and most people do indeed want the papaer work...I thinl they call it an photogentic memeory....anyway..that's how I got to working on some of the people through an historical library down in Tennessee...it was at one owned an doperated by family. My
"specialty" is knowing the movements of the people....as they generally travelled within family grooups of neighbors and kin.

I'll tell you something that impressed me though....I like to buy books to read over certain Holidays...and "angels" is what I go for over the Christmas Season. I happened to pick up an book couple years back to read, it turns out that the author of the book when hypnotized was the "Apostle Paul"...more remarkable, he lives here south of Portland.this book came about as an sort of "calling" from the other side. It was real hard for even him to think it was possible as to an previous Idenity as to whom he had been. It was an very iteresting read...and they go about at every angle to say it can't possibly be..and he keeps passing the test...but as an person..he was not inclined to eleborate on things...but talk about events that they found in documents surrounding him.  It was an interesting read...he says that Jesus did not impress him in the slightest, but he had heard so much about him, he wanted to be near him and hear what it was he had to say. From there on is part of the story...the rest of it was apparently written after this book. It would be nice to find it and read it also. AS it swings from the NOW to the " back then" era. The angels in this "calling" find ways to talk and comminicate in many different ways........It is not an "prophecy" book of any kind either.

The officer's name was Miller, from New York State, Shirley. The date might be familiar to James---15 Dec 1944---the same day Glenn Miller went missing.  There's a tri-partriat monument in the works for these men of an accident that was forgotten about for 60 years, when I started looking into it. There's some very touching stories about my research I shan't bore you with, but has meant a lot to families back in the US. Indeed, news of it has also reached The Whitehouse as well as the USAF back home.

 http://www.greenhamcommonamericanservicesmemorial.com/b17_crash

But is was going down the grandmother's line things got interesting with grandad Capt Levi Ely of the Massachusetts Militia; 2nd Co. 3rd Hampshire Regiment who was killed in battle Oct 19, 1780.  

Yes, interesting, Paul.  And very impressive!  Interesting that this serviceman is remembered in a British memorial, and his ancestor was killed in a war against the British. 

What do I do to impress people? - nothing consciously that I know of.  I guess what I try do do most is think critically and not just accept everything that's fed to me, especially from the media.  It makes the conversation a bit livelier to play devil's advocate sometimes.

Hi Ruth...the book is called "The Mesengers" by Julia Ingram and G. W. Hardin....Published by Skywin in 1996...out of lake Oswego, Oregon. Small incerpt on the book...".In spite of my initial skepticism, on five different occasions the angels intervened in my life to provide me written information to give to Nick Bunick. This magnificent book will have an great spiritual impact on your life.... Rick Eckard"    It was Nick Bunick whom when hypnotized revealed he was the Paul the apsostle...and under this hypnosis and other events that he tells about his former past life and his instruction and learning with Jesus....in his time frame here on earth.

Paul our genealogy is important to us...here in the states..as we were people that in many ways had no place to go to to call "home" ....so we had to make it ourselves...generation per generation. Many times orphans from life itself being so perilous over here. Disease, Indian Wars, going bankrupt and losing everything...or never having an thing to begin with most the time. My mother kept "family" alive in us kids..because she travelled 3,000 miles out here to start life over....hoping for somehing better. She all her life thought she was the only one out here by herself and then after she died, I  got baraged with people telling me she was one of the last ones to be here in the family...but they never stood up to be counted during her life, when she needed people the most....so strange. Now of course people don't see their family as much because they travel the world these days...so ironic. Most the older and prestegious families of American History are not the so wealthy these days from giving constantly in earlier days and generations.