This  has now been reported to the Adninistrator of this mailing list. If this isn't stopped you can be removed from the Rootsweb mailing list because this type of behavior on postings is not considered appropriate according to their rules.  You need to take this off this mailing list and discuss your differences in private.  Many of us menbers  do not appreciate this kind of behavior and disrespect.   Marianne Dillow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- On Mon, 7/20/09, repunzul@tampabay.rr.com <repunzul@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: From: repunzul@tampabay.rr.com <repunzul@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: [LEWIS] Incest, and WV public records To: "Brenda Simpkins" <bsimp1949@yahoo.com>, kdnoah@comcast.net, lewis@rootsweb.com, "MandyColgan" <MColgan@ecfs.org> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 9:18 PM Wow, shouldn't this be taken off list and handled privately???? I have been a lurker for awhile until I gather enough info to post a message about my Lewis line, however, after reading all of this, I would be hesitant to do so now.  ---- Llew Llaw <llewllawereint@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > I am not quite sure why you are so > > hostile.  > > You lied to me, repeatedly. It's funny you think you know my feelings though, too. Are you also a fortune teller. > > > > > > I have never spoken with you before and I > > have no reason to doubt your sincerity.  > > > I saved the emails, we corresponded 2 years ago. > > >  I have put my > > research on the web never requiring anyone to agree with it. > > Or offering proof either. But if you didn't want to discuss, you wouldn't have repeatedly forwarded your personal correspondence to me, now, and in the past sent me your family's pics, either. > > > > I am open to any one else's research, documents or dna > > findings. Put your stuff on the table in an organized and > > polite manner and I would love to see it. > > I already have, you're just not listening. > > >    I > > have changed my ideas quite often and would like to talk to > > your sources and see your research. > > Already offered .You never gave sources, but I already have. > > >   They could shed > > quite alot of light on the problem.  I feel quite > > battered by your insistence that I have lied or tried to > > manipulate information.  > > Well, you did. Your emauil correspondences are also listed on another lewis forum, and you mentioned to me about working at the school in NYC started by aesthetic realism and isaac asimov, too. > > > Up until now Brenda was the > > only person I knew who lived in Wayne Co. who had worked on > > this family. > > you and I corresponded 2 years ago, so that is not true. > > >   I had no particular reason to doubt her > > work, nor do I now.  All of our efforts have been made > > in a sincere attempt to solve this family's history. > > Or cover it up. > > > >  > > If you want to argue credentials, I am a research librarian > > at the New York Public Library with a Master's degree in > > Early American History.  I have 5 DAR entries, all > > researched and documented by my own hand.  I have > > membership in the Mayflower Society via my ancestor Edward > > Doten, > > My mother has had 15 dar entries, and was the registrar for the state we live in, meaning she checks it for the DAR, other people's research. > > >  and I am also a member of the Colonial Dames in New > > York.  As such, I am a docent of the Van Cortlandt > > House in New York City.  > >  > > Which doesn't change th3e fact you have never offered any proof of edward 3rd being thomas's ancestor. I have genetic testing and the rsearch I've already done showing he was the son of charles lewis of donegal, and I and the other lewises don't seem top have a testing lab to fake our results. I have nothing showing charles and benjamin were sons of edward at all, despite your insistence they were. > > > > That being said, I would trust my Great-Grandmother Minnie > > Lewis and my Grandmother Betty Lewis Conley who had common > > educations in Morgan Co. KY to speak about their family over > > anyone who had any kind of credentials to speak of. > > Which is nice, but all you are doing is assuming authority, and you still never gave anything to prove they have stated who thomas's Dad is. > > > >  > > I know how to document a source and I know what "proof" > > consists of.  Proof is documented (purviewed) written > > or photographed evidence of an event.  Not heresay, > > tradition, proximity to blood relations, > > Which you just gave above. Okay, I see now why several researchers here told me people here were crazy, and not to give them creedence or publish my email exchanges with them on list. > > >  backing by a > > religous organization, or credentialed testimony.  At > > this time there is no proof as to the parentage of either > > Thomas or Benjamin Lewis. > > There is proof, you've even quoted it. Your just a crank. You did also give the parents of both as edward lewis. That's not triue. I also did do research for that family, proving one ancestor of mine, the one I get my huge head from, came from that family in mecklenburg. It's been accepted too, by other people researching her. It did prove that alpine head was not due to anything but being a pict and lewis descendant, too. > > > >  > > I would surely like to have your name so that we could have > > a mannerly conversation. > >  > > Hey, you can be mannerly as you choose, you don't need my personal information. Given you have already scammed my  sources, I can see why you hid for so long. > > >        > >