I remembered them all, and I couldn't figure out what Bobby was talking about. But I didn't dare contradict <g>. 8th Grade: I remember all 64. We learned them kind of in sing-song fashion so I have to start at the beginning to remember one in particular! Thank you, Ms. McKay for teaching us the parishes! Morgan At 04/04/2000 08:46 PM, Jan Craven wrote: >Oh, well, when I was in the 8th grade we had to learn all the parishes and >the correct spelling. >As soon as I finished that test, I forgot most of them. >This project has helped my memory a BUNCH, but I still couldn't remember >all of them.. >I can remember sitting there in that school room trying to remember all of >them. >Our teacher died just recently and when my mother told me about his death, >that is what >I remembered. >Jan >Please note new email address > >At 08:24 PM 04/04/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>Well, I didn't memorize all 64 parishes til I became SC. I had 'LA >>Studies' in 8th grade, tho. >> >>They don't teach as much about LA in LA schools now, unfortunately. >> >>b > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [email protected] Christian County, ILGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilchrist/ Grant Parish, LAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~lagrant/ Rapides Parish, LAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~larapide/ CALVIT Surname Mailing List http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~morgan/calvit My personal genealogy http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~morgan/