My ancestor Johan Nicholaus Linke's family tree sort of vanishes in Germany abt. that time. They were executing people left and right for witchcraft and heresy. On 15 Jan 2008 20:23:21 GMT, saki <saki@ucla.edu> wrote: > > "brenda parker" <fairplay1951@gmail.com> wrote in > news:mailman.2151.1200428167.4586.alt-genealogy@rootsweb.com: > > > And NOBODY"s ancestors were just plain every day people who worked > > hard for a living. > > Mine were. :-) Well, most of them. > > No kings, castles, princes, or fortunes though. It's been a hard job > convincing some of my relatives that we had no castle anywhere, or buried > treasure for that matter. > > Seems to me that being able to trace ancestors (via verifiable documents) > back to 1597 is the real treasure! > > ---- > saki@ucla.edu > http://sakionline.net/familypage > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALT-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Proud member of IBSSG