This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------412909A2312DC02F78A0BF49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------412909A2312DC02F78A0BF49 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <38AB379A.82D4F64B@bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:49:46 -0500 From: Tony and Julie Howell <tjhowell@bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-bls40 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cgdean@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [FLHILLSB-L] Re: Adoptions, Records and Hillsborough County References: <00b201bf7800$83eacec0$3799d4cd@BeckyStevenson> <38A9D5D4.A0338432@bellsouth.net> <38AB2A3B.80339200@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i've read a lot of genealogy-related terms since starting research back in the 1970s, but i can't say i've ever heard of "the X-Mozilla-Status: 0009". what is it, please, and why would researchers want to do it? thank you. cynthia dean wrote: > Dear Julie, > I'm sure your adoptive parents were wonderful people, and it's great > that you appreciate them. But, like it or not, genealogy traces blood > lines. You are not a descendant of your adoptive parents and to list > yourself as such will only confuse researchers down the line. > > Both of my brothers have adopted children, and they don't like it that I > stopped those lines in my charts with those children. But, a person > can only appear on one genealogy chart and that is of his biological > ancestors. > > If you are doing genealogy, I hope you will indicate that you are > adopted. > > No one would suggest you associate with your biological parents if you > don't want to, but it is important to researchers who may be doing > theX-Mozilla-Status: 0009 doing your adoptive parents' lines to know the > truth. Otherwise, the genealogy is a farce. > > Cynthia --------------412909A2312DC02F78A0BF49--