Just could not resist sending this: http://www.snopes2.com/holidays/xmas/12days.htm Guess there's more than one side to the origin of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" Best of the Season to All, Hank At 10:34 AM 12/25/00 -0600, you wrote: >At 11:47 AM 12/25/00 -0500, Cynthia wrote: >>In our local newspaper there was an article on the >>"12 Days of Christmas".....and since Ma-Bay-Colony, >>Ct-River-Valley, and MAPlymou, all are historically related >>to the time frame of the song, I thought this would be >>of interest. >> > >Something I was told but never took the time to confirm is that if you add >up all the gifts in the 12 days of Christmas you get 364 and then the one >special gift for the ones that believe makes it 365.. > > >Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives. > > >==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== >Share information with others...regardless of how small. > >Listowner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net > >============================== >Get Free Access to all Ancestry.com Databases from Dec 7 until Dec 21!http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/freeaccess.htm?sourcecode=736 >