Amen!
Miles wrote:
We have one significant and important common bond which is interest in
Carpenter Family
history for one reason or another. Family members are expected to disagree
and/or quarrel from time to time but that should not allow us to
"excessively beat up" on our members nor to break up over it. BRING IT ON!
John R Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Carpenter
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 3:54 AM
To: CARPENTER(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARPENTER] Grateful for Diversity of Carpenter List Postings
I too would like you to stay on John and administer the Carpenter Listings.
However, if your physical or good mental health is being affected by "petty
nit picking" by a few who hold themselves up as "Icons of Purity in all
things" , then I would understand you being fed up with such ungrateful
experts and decide to move on. I challenge anyone else to devote the time
and energy to keeping the list going as well as you have.
I have been on the List for many years and there were times that I was not
interested in the subject matter but I am always glad to be able to see what
is happening and to make liberal use of my Delete button if the topic is not
of interest. Over the years, I could have taken offence at the seemingly
derogatory opinions expressed about the United Empire Loyalists; OR derided
the American patriotic postings of one sort or another; OR grieved the
passing of people that I do not know; OR any other "band wagons" that people
sometimes wish to share with a group of which they otherwise will always
respect and assist with their Carpenter Family research problems. I am a
proud Canadian of Loyalist ancestry and cherish my roots and relatives in
America and have always considered the Carpenter Listing as an international
service. As a Canadian though, I have come to expect and accept the
reality of the "American tendency to believe the "American centre of the
universe" attitude to the rest of the world". This remark will likely cause
another spate of patriotism but we all have to look at ourselves in the
mirror at some time.
Please do not lose sight of the fact that we all cherish our common roots as
emigrants from some other part of the world at some time in the past.
However, I believe that our original ancestors to this continent were
primarily motivated by the need for freedoms from some sort of real and/or
perceived persecution elsewhere in the world; one of the most important of
which is reasonable expectation of freedom of speech and expression. I seem
to remember having seen that in a Constitution somewhere. It did take
Canadians 206 years (1982) to come around to expressing it the same way but
we did so to more clearly recognize this reality in Canada since
Confederation in 1967 (115 years ago).
I have greatly benefitted from help from any quarter by subscribers to the
Carpenter Listings, even Experts, and am most grateful for your help. I
have also enjoyed being able to help others from time to time. We have one
significant and important common bond which is interest in Carpenter Family
history for one reason or another. Family members are expected to disagree
and/or quarrel from time to time but that should not allow us to
"excessively beat up" on our members nor to break up over it. BRING IT ON!
Miles Carpenter
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