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