Yes. Thanks. Angelyn ---- Marlene <[email protected]> wrote: > You are only half as much as your mother and half as much as your father. > Half of 1/2 = 1/4 or 2/8. Half of 1/4 = 1/8. 2/8 + 1/8 = 3/8 > If your mother were 1/2 Indian and your Father were 1/4 Indian you would > only get half same as if your mother was English and your father half > English and 1/2 French. You would only be 1/2 English from your mother and > 1/4 from your father as well as also 1/4 French from your father. That > accounts for the entire 4/4s. If your father were just French, you would be > half English and half French. > Does that make sense to you? > > > From: <[email protected]> > > > > Well, I don't know. When you measure flour for biscuits, a cake, whatever, > > 1/2C and 1/4C are 3/4thC. > > > > Angelyn > > > > My ailing husband is inquiring "What's to eat?". Back later. > > > > > > > > ---- cinnabarsetters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One parent is 1/4 and the other is 1/2. 3/8 is in between those two > >> numbers. > >> Darice > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Cc: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: 03/31/2007 4:10 PM > >> Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST] CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Digest, Vol 2, Issue > >> 13 > >> > >> > >> >I agree, Ron, but part of my query concerned how, being mathematically > >> >challenged, one arrives at the figure of 3/8ths? I do not care that > >> >David > >> >Osborne Fisher is more or less Choctaw than his brothers and sisters. I > >> >would like to see his enrollment packet mainly because none of his > >> >nieces - > >> >the ones I've worked with the past 6 years re the LeFlore and associated > >> >families - know how much Choctaw his mother, Martha Hays was. It might > >> >also > >> >give us a clue as to her birthdate as well as her date of death. > >> > > >> > Angelyn > >> > > >> > ---- [email protected] wrote: > >> >> My opinion is that blood quantum is absurd from the get-go, but it is > >> >> common > >> >> to have children of the same parents listed with different quanta on > >> >> the > >> >> Dawes Rolls. It's pretty meaningless as a measure of anything. > >> >> > >> >> Ron > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ************************************** See what's free at > >> >> http://www.aol.com. > >> >> > >> >> ------------------------------- > >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > >> >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > >> > without > >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > No virus found in this incoming message. > >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.23/740 - Release Date: > >> > 3/30/2007 > >> > 1:15 PM > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message