My mom was born in Salina Kansas. She would agree that she would never have gotten out of 8th grade if she had stayed. Heck she would never gotten out of 12th. On the other hand she could have named all the parts of speech. I listened recently to a talk by the Provost of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey California. While those who successfully apply have demonstrated an aptitude for language, almost every student had to be taught the elemental structure of the English language before they proceeded to being taught languages of varying difficulty (Spanish to Pashtun). They can't diagram a sentence. They don't know what diagraming a sentence represents. By the way my mom taught me. So at least for one question I could have passed. Barb C <calibarbi@hotmail.com> wrote: I spoke with Norma Goodman, volunteer librarian at the Smoky Valley Genealogy Society and Library in Saline, Kansas, yesterday to confirm they have this test at their location. Indeed they do! (And yes, it is spelled 'Smoky'.) Barb > From: goldsdlf@lamar.colostate.edu> To: norcal@rootsweb.com; casANFRA-L@rootsweb.com; stlouis-mo@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:57:49 -0600> Subject: [CASANFRA] 8th grade exam...> > I wrote Judie Cook and sent her another website about the high school test.... I can not imagine 8th grade students taking such a test.... my mother, finished high school in a small MO town and took the teacher certification test and passed it like many other young ladies across the nation in the early 1920's. She taught grade school for a few years. She could not have begun to pass this test....> > The true Genealogist always says "let's prove a find at least three times".... and at this point in time I do not think this test has been proven once. One person said their grandparents had taken the test...... where is the data that shows it was the same test. Check the following:> > http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/1895exam.htm> > I'm becoming extremely worried that several historic! al documents are not proven....... a Civil War Expert in our Genealogical Society pointed out the fallacies within several letters found in the "Civil War Letter" site via Google the other day..... He couldn't even find the "signers" of some letters listed in the Civil War Veteran records. There are some "smoothies" out there that can rake in a few bucks by selling fake documents.> > The role of the professional Genealogists and Genealogical Societies world wide, are increasing daily.... namely, encouraging researchers to not take everything that is printed on the internet as a proven fact..... seek reliable proof, a half dozen times if need be.> > Kenneth L. Goldsberry> Pres. Larimer County CO Genealogical Society> > www.lcgsco.org > **************************> Visit SFGenealogy.com!> http://www.sfgenealogy.com> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes! in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_instantaccess_042008 ************************** Visit SFGenealogy.com! http://www.sfgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message