> > Here is a suggestion; should be create two separate Carpenter lists--one > for American ancestry only, the other for arguments about English, French, > Flemish and earlier debates. It seems most of the bad stuff is over highly > dubious feel-good heritage from the time of the crusades...which is > interesting history (and even interesting debate, back when it was civil), > but for most of us, not really what we're here for. Robin, I think that is an excellent idea. I am sure there are other people like me who really don't want to unsubscibe, but whose area of interest is more in the last two hundred years. Cynthia Carpenter Samples -- _________________________________________________________ Cynthia Genealogy World http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genworld Rockwall County TX GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrockwa Red River County TX GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv