> From: "Patricia Hobson" <[email protected]> > Date: April 28, 2005 12:04:50 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] surveys constables > > > Then you could entertain yourself with > etymological & historical ephemera without prohibiting other people > from > asking about old uncle Henry Carpenter for fear of derision. > Have a nice day! > P. Hobson You said: "old uncle Henry Carpenter" What makes you think he lived to be old? I want to see primary, secondary, and tertiary sources cross-referenced, annotated, highlighted with a yellow highlighter, and with orange stickie pads. Why do you obviously claim he didn't have a middle name? And he's an uncle? Ha, you must be kidding if you think just by saying so it makes it true. We don't know for sure he had siblings, after all you don't list any. And who's to say that his (UNPROVEN!) siblings even had children? You make too many assumptions for such a serious genealogist as myself to bear silently. I'm ready to fight you tooth and nail over these "details", after all, this is the Carpenter genealogy list! :) M. E. Galomania (aka Rick Carpenter)