I get the humor, but a gross matrimonial error was made by the humorist right off the bat (unless he's rewriting history). Captain John Smith did not marry Pocahontas--John >Rolfe< did and took her back to England to the court of St. James. It's in the history books--it's also in my mother's genealogical tracing--Jeanette >Rolfe< Grandstaff (Grandstaff, of course, being an Adams county family). What linkages, eh? Eric Grandstaff Duane S Baumgartner wrote: > Hi everybody: > Thought that it was time for a little humor again! This was sent to > me by a cousin in Bend, Oregon. > Duane > > **************************************************************** > > SOURCES JUST SLOW ME DOWN > > The people are what it's all about so I don't worry about > sources. If I find an ancestor with the last name Smith, I just > go ahead and link him to Captain John Smith and his wife > Pocahontas. Last name of Carson? I have them descend from Kit > Carson, the famous pioneer. If their last name is King, I figure > I can go ahead and show descent from King Richard the > Lionhearted, because he was a king that I like. > > After you do it for awhile, it gets easier and easier to link > your family to really interesting people. Sure you have to be a > little more creative than those fuddy-duddy, goody-goody, source- > quoting weirdos. Sometimes I have to invent individuals to > connect things up right, but I figure they *could* have existed, > right? And this way my genealogy is really interesting, my family > loves it, and it saves me time! Yep....Sources just slow me down! > > My motto: What the heck, who's going to check? > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ==== INADAMS Mailing List ==== -- ****************************************************************************** Eric M. Grandstaff, http://www.ncmc.cc.mi.us/eric.html Director, Library, Media, Internet, and Distance Learning North Central Michigan College Doctoral Fellow, Educational Technology Eastern Michigan University grandsta@online.emich.edu Address: North Central Michigan College, 1515 Howard Street, Petoskey, MI 49770 (VOICE) 616-348-6615; (FAX) 616-348-6629, -6679; grandste@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us******grandsta@online.emich.edu eric@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us*********grandste@www.ncmc.cc.mi.us af662@traverse.lib.mi.us*******grandste@northland.lib.mi.us grandste@freeway.net******************grandste@www.mcca.org ******************************************************************************