Roy Stockdill wrote: > This story has just appeared on the GENBRIT list under the thread header "Nasty > shock for family historians". I noticed > I am well aware that some > will not agree with me - I find this somewhat bizarre for the following reasons.... This is one of the rare occasions when I completely agree with you. There are still a good many researchers who don't or won't accept that some ancestors weren't whiter than white. Our ancestors were human beings and as such were as fallible as we are today. > And when we take it upon ourselves to right the perceived wrongs of an earlier age, > almost two centuries ago, we are going down a very dangerous road of political > correctness indeed !!! Who knows what lawsuits and legal battles might overwhelm > our courts if we accepted the principle that descendants of people who were executed > long ago had the right to sue today? HM The Queen, for one, would NEVER be out of > the courts, considering the vast numbers executed by her ancestors ! HRH's representatives wouldn't be. As you say, the wrongs of yesterday can't be undone or corrected. They have to be accepted in the light of the times in which they occurred. > 4) Were descendants of the girl murdered by John Horwood traced and asked for > their views? Apparently not. If they were, they may well have thought it rather bizarre as well and declined to become a party to it all. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/