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This came from one of my other lists. Thought It might bring a laugh or
two!
Jenny
List Mom
----- Original Message -----
From: <CBraun675(a)aol.com>
To: <MACFARLAND-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 7:19 AM
Subject: [MACFARLAND] LAMENT OF AN AMERICAN GENEALOGIST
> The following is from another mail list but I thought it was so
appropriate
> for this list. I continue to run across the same names in my research but
> then cannot make the actual connection to my family. Have a safe and
happy
> holiday weekend.
> Conni in Ohio
>
> LAMENT OF AN AMERICAN GENEALOGIST
>
> Charting my American family tree,
> Is like tracing a mongrel dog's pedigree.
> Records of my family's kith and kin,
> Show up English, Scotch, French, and a few Welshmen.
>
> Its a jumble of families who use the same names.
> That is, nine brothers will have a son named "James."
> Cousins marry cousins and in-laws do wed.
> If one wife dies, he'll take her sister to bed.
>
> One uncle of mine traveled far from his land;
> He wanted a wife who wasn't kin to his clan,
> When he brought her home and figured her lines,
> She was a cousin to him, twenty-two times.
>
> A wise child is one who knows his own sire;
> A genealogist has to assume the mother's no liar.
> Non-Aryan races trace descent through the mother;
> I consider this method more accurate than any other.
>
> But I've traced all my lines through the father, too
> And patiently chased down every clue.
> Now that my charts all completed and framed under glass,
> I'm proud I'm an American --100% middle class.
>
> Author Unknown
>
>
>
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Came form another list thought you might be interested in it.
Jenny
List Mom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <prsmith(a)pdq.net>
To: <BEASLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: [Beasley] BYU Molecular Genealogy Study
> To All Genealogists and Family Historians --
>
> There has been some talk on a couple of the lists of late
> concerning a study being done by Brigham Young University.
> I went to the web site and this looks like a wonderful
> beginning step in creating a true, genetic genealogy. In a
> nutshell, they're taking blood samples and 4-generation
> pedigrees from people all over the world in an effort to
> create
> a MOLECULAR GENEALOGY of the human race.
>
> I spoke with the Director of Public Affairs for the Houston
> Family History Centers and he expressed an interest in
> putting on an event here in Houston to support the BYU
> study. You could do the same thing in your communities
> and we could really help get this project off to a roaring
> good start.
>
> Security/Privacy issues are discussed at the site.
>
> Here's the URL:
>
> http://molecular-genealogy.byu.edu/
>
> I sent this messages to the lists to which I am
> subscribed. You may want to forward it on to other lists.
>
> -- Happy Hunting!! -- Paul
> Houston, TX, USA
> ICQ #73314929
> Researching: VA - WHITE,LIPSCOMB,HILL,JOHNSON,SAUNDERS,
> TALBOT,TATE,EVANS
> NC - SMITH, BOSWELL, RHODES, CAPEHART,MORRIS,
> MARSHE, BRITT,SHAW
>
> View my American Ancestry at:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paulrsmith
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> "We shall find no ancestor before his time."
> "To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree
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Jenny
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----- Original Message -----
From: "J.D.McEachin" <jdm(a)synthcom.com>
To: <BEASLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: [Beasley] WARNING: Family Discovery Is At It Again
> Hi All,
>
> I just got a spam from GenTruth <gentruthfree(a)genealogyrelated.com> ,
which is yet another attempt to repackage Family Discovery -
www.familydiscovery.com . A websearch at www.google.com for <"family
discovery" genealogy scam> turned up 44 pages, all of which are negative.
Here is a sample of what their unhappy customers have said about them:
>
> http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/familydiscovery.htm
>
>
> Here are a couple of pages which provide a good education on avoiding
being ripped off by persons selling family histories, coats of arms, and
other genealogical scams:
>
> http://www.ancestordetective.com/watchdog.htm
>
> http://www.ancestry.families.aol.com/library/view/columns/eastman/3538.asp
>
> JDM
>
>
>
>
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If anyone has the names Holloway in their search list this is important
information.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <prsmith(a)pdq.net>
To: <BEASLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: [Beasley] HOLLOWAY Family Cemetery
> > << This was in Tues, 8 May, Springfield MO News Leader, p.
> 5B:
> > Discovery of cemetery halts roadwork--Associated
> Press-Kansas City--
> > Construction of a new highway in south Kansas City has
> been halted by
> > the discovery of a small cemetery dating back to the Civil
> War era.
> > State officials are anxious to find any descendants of the
> Holloway
> > family who are bured in the cemetery. If the heirs can't
> be found, the
> > state will have to get court permission to move the nine
> graves in the
> > plot, in order to finish a new Missouri 150.
> > Construction workers recently unearthed a marble
> headstone, dating
> > from 1858, while moving a large section of water pipe.
> > Archaeologists later found another headstone and evidence
> of seven
> > other graves.
> > The site has not been disturbed further.
> > --------
> > Please pass this on to other lists.
> >
> > Betty White
> > Santa Barbara, CA
>
>
>
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