----- Original Message ----- From: <Kaesemein@aol.com> To: <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:16 AM Subject: [BAd] Should This Stay or Go? > Hello Everyone, > > Someone posted this link on my county message board because he was born in my > county but his family are all from KY. Should it be allowed to stay? > > _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~celebrities/manson.html_ > (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~celebrities/manson.html) > > I find it offensive....does anyone want the ancestry of one of the most > famous Serial > Killers on their message board? I don't. > > Opinions please? > Thanks in advance, > Marilyn > An additional comment to what others have said. . . We tend to think that other people are like us in their interests. That's a normal frame of reference for each of us. But, you just have to look at how many people belong to the Black Sheep genealogy group to realize that many have turned to other genealogists as a way of working out issues with their black sheep or of trying to understand family-of-origin issues. Others collect genealogy information about criminals as a sociological study of family issues. So, as long as the genealogy of a criminal is available and placed on the best possible board, it belongs. If they were from Oklahoma, feel free to post them to my board: Boards > Topics > Crime (old west, outlaws, prisoners, police, etc.) > OK Lawmen Outlaw. Famous outlaws are a hot topic when they havew been dead for 100 years. So it will be for today's famous criminals. Regards, Sharyn