Listmembers, I agree whole heartedly with MizAnne! There is no place for that kind of talk on a genealogy website. We are not here for that purpose, rather we are on this forum to investigate, learn whatever we can about our ancestors, their children, their legacies to us as Americans. Injustice has been done, at one time or another, to any group you can name, but proliferating that wrong doing and adding to the resulting animosity benefits no one!! There are still areas in this country where just being from the South casts one in a less than favorable light. I don't dwell on that, but rather continue to be proud of who and what I am, and the people who contributed to making me that one unique person! If I worried about others' thoughts or motives, I could be one bitter older Southern lady! Life is too short for that!! Time to move on!! J J G >>From: MizAnne <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 2/21/02 7:47:23 PM > Subject: [ALCOOSA] Reparations. > > When I first saw this foolishness on the web site I thought of unsubscribing. I feel time should not be taken up on the web for inflammatory matter. If it is to continue - unsubscribe me. > > The issue is settled, slavery was legal before 1865. All those people are dead. > > My ancestor was brought to America by force during the Amer. Rev. He was a Hessian soldier ripped from his home to serve the English government. The German Margrave sold his young men to the British. > > I also had another ancestor who indentured himself \ he had to because of the lack of opportunity in England. Thank heavens he came out of it and partook of the blessings of America. We hold no ill will toward anybody > > I do not bemoan and carry hatred for the British or anybody. > > Time moves on, it is time for people to thank God for the blessings they have, and live in the present. Stop trying to flagellate dead and pile up the money. Get off the soapbox and get to work. Try to make bridges. Messages like I see on this web only incite hard feelings. > > We are all Americans. If people cannot accept that fact and go on with their lives, then they should return to where they came from. Remember who it was that sold the Negroes to the Portugese, Spanish and English ship captains? If their tribal rulers had not cooperated, the ship captains could have never taken them off. If I could not stand America, I would go back to Germany and England where my ancestors were lured off. > > Anne G. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237