Richard: It's OK - We expect occasional slight deviation from genealogy when addressing certain issues, as you point out - we just try to keep it to a bare minimum to avoid complaints from die-hard genealogists. Bottom line - if you don't hear from me, everything's OK!! When you DO hear from me - pay attention! I am a crotchety old senior citizen (smile) and have zero tolerance for those who cannot follow plainly-stated guidelines. dusty Listowner ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Wilson <imafo2002@yahoo.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Appropriate Topics > Halito All: > > I have been taking care of some personal business > and was quite pleased and very surprised with the > lively discussion. > However, I was quite concerned that a topic that > I introduced on 7/13 would cause so much conflict. The > question I asked back on 7/13 concerned John Harper > (Hopiah). I was trying to discover if I could use the > name Hopiah in some way to discover other ancestors. > Dusty pointed out that with the name Tubbee, which I > used as an example, It was a name that was used to > honor a person for having killed an enemy in battle. > Of course we all know there were many ways a Choctaw > could have acquired a name. > However, there is the case when a family or clan > had a particular responsibility and their name was a > particular designation of this. I wonder if in the > case of Hopiah, Leader or Mound Builder, if this could > be the case. As you can see, you cannot answer the > genealogical question, without also asking and > answering some historical, cultural,religious, etc, > etc. questions. > Now to say that you must then split the various > parts of this discussion and put it on different > sites, would dilute the aim and purpose of the > discussion to the point that it would have no value. > Therefore I think it makes sense to keep the > discussion where it started. Not to mention the fact > that you would lose all sense of continuity, logic and > reason, by splitting up all of the various elements of > the discussion. > Well I have said what I had to say. I just know > what kind of discussion I need to involve people of > knowledge in to discover my ancestors. After all, that > is the point! > > Imafo > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE.... > Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes and spelled correctly. > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... >