I understand the questions about the women. I found info on one list stating a woman had married a man 42 years her junior and then had children. She would have been 82 at the time. When I asked for clarification I did not hear from her again. And everyone, lighten up. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice E Morgan" <woodjems@juno.com> To: <FUQUA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: Fw: [FUQUA] Amen Sue > Dear List Members, > > I'm new to this list and I'm probably the one who started the controversy > by complaining about the amount of misinformation being presented as > part of The Fugua Family History. This is not my style to cause > controversy > and for that I'm truly sorry. > > But I think every one is missing the point here. > > No one is doing themselves a service by quitting a list because > they feel these messages are directed at them. They weren't > directed at any particular person but at a problem that is > very serious. > > If you will take a look at some family histories presented on the > Internet and do the Math you will realize just how ridiculous some > of the claims are. More than a few have women having children > at age 47, 52, 56, and 58 years of age. I'm a woman as well as > a nurse and know this is impossible short of a Biblical miracle! > > I am not against using information found on the Internet > as a basis for your own research. That is what most people > who go to the trouble of carefully preparing a web site put it out > there for. > > Still it hurts when you've worked an untold amount of time only > to have what you have done claimed by others. If you are going > to use the information the least you can do is thank the person > and maybe even site that person or web site as a source. > > Once again, I apologize for starting this. > > Jan Morgan, a possible Fuqua Family Member. > > > ==== FUQUA Mailing List ==== > You are invited to visit the new Fuqua website at: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fuqua > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >