Genealogy is a personalized history that only has
relevance to the individual... not necessarily to the
community. I prefer to divorce my family history from
something as mundane and from something as emotionally
driven as national politics. Thank ya kindly Karen!
--- Karen Mitchell <km1109(a)rmi.net> wrote:
I disagree, genealogy is all about history and as he
stated, this is history
in the making and to that I say AMEN!
KAren Mitchell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dandylin Deslauriers" <mineralco(a)yahoo.com>
To: <COGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: [COGEN-L] History, but not necessarily
genealogy
> This does not belong on this list. Save it for
your
> political forums. We too feel strongly about
politics
> and what is going on, but this is not the forum
for
> such discussions.
>
> Linda and Dan Deslauriers
> --- Patrick Hays <gsdownr(a)geocities.com> wrote:
> > From somebody whose right to vote may have
been
> > stolen by what
> > I am currently terming mail fraud, if you did
not
> > vote, shame on
> > you, if you live in Florida, Oregon or Wisconsin
and
> > did not vote,
> > I hope you learn your lesson. I will fight to
make
> > sure my vote
> > actually gets counted, and I serve this country
to
> > ensure your
> > right to get your vote counted.
> > A history lesson is being written as I speak
> > right now. It is
> > 4 am est, and the election just went from "Bush
> > elected" to
> > "Undecided". There are currently about 26,000
votes
> > separating
> > Gore and Bush out of 93,000,000 votes cast
> > nationwide. And 3
> > states that are 1500 or less votes apart with
> > "almost all of the
> > votes" counted. If you voted, you took part in
> > making history.
> > If not... I have no words to express my current
> > contempt. I will
> > get over my contempt shortly, but will you ever
have
> > an
> > opportunity to change history again? Yes, you
will,
> > four years
> > from right now.
> > Now that should be a history lesson... and a
> > civics lesson
> > too. Let's get back to genealogy!
> >
> > BTW the lead in popular votes flip-flopped
to
> > Gore leading by
> > 60,000 with 94,000,000 votes counted, and the
count
> > in Florida
> > dwindled to less than 225 while I was writing
this.
> > Never, ever
> > say that your vote does not count.
> >
> > Patrick Hays
> > SC INGenWeb
> >
http://www.ingenweb.net
> > CC Hancock, Daviess, Jefferson and Henry Cos.,
KY;
> > Custer Co., CO;
> > Mecosta Co., MI
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/hancock1.html
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/daviess1.html
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/jefferson1.html
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/henry1.html
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/custer1.html
> >
http://www.geocities.com/~gsdownr/mecosta1.html
> > CoCC Blackford Co., IN
> >
http://users.rootsweb.com/~inblackf/
> > and National Coordinator of Migrations
> >
http://www.migrations.org
> >
> >
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irritate
> > the living
> >
>
>
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