[email protected] wrote: > > Sorry for the long quote but it is needed for what follows. > Lorna R Dunklee wrote: > "Did anyone besides me read Ann Landers' column in today's (Sunday April > 5, 1998) paper? She received a letter from "Louisville Mom" who wrote to blah blah blah. Then an arrogant repsonse from Ms. Landers. OOOOOH!!! Did this piss anybody off as much as it did me? That is the most ARROGANT attitude I've heard in a long while. I agree that she is implying that to have arrived in this country one way is inherently better than to have arrived in another way. And that those of us who do this research do it for some sort of ego boost, or to feel superior to those around us. But then I guess none of us on the Hamrick list can feel superior to anybody else on the Hamrick list - we're all kin, one way or another!!!! (But we could, I suppose, feel superior to those around us - after all, I think we have a pretty good family!!! Hamrick, Hambrick or any other way you wanna spell it!!!) She may feel that way, but I've NEVER gotten that inpression from anybody, on or off this mailing list, that I've been in contact with who is tracing their roots. They've all been helpful, and friendly, and have treated me like family. I guess because in some far off distant way, we are family. And family is always a good thing. I guess that's why her response makes me so mad. I see it as a way to find my family. Far off & distant tho' they may be, they are still FAMILY. Ann Landers can keep her family "shrub" as far as I'm concerned. I'll keep my sometimes *barely* branching part of the Ham(b)rick family tree & be damn proud of 'em. Chicken-theiving gamblers & all!!! (That would be ole' Righley!!) She's probably really missing out. Her loss. -s- ps - thanks for letting me sound off. Ya just gotta every now & then. -- Sarah E. Hambrick [email protected] "There's enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?" - unknown