Hi Nola: Thanks for understanding. I have so much trouble - as I'm sure a lot of genealogists do - with info being posted on the internet that is not true. I just want to head off any future problems by making sure this is documented before anything is posted. That way I won't have folks contacting me insisting it must be true because it is on the internet - and you know ONLY true stuff gets posted just like ONLY true stuff gets published in books. No one ever writes a book with mistakes in it. Never happened - never will. The Allred Family Organization is still getting queries about a research report published in a book back in the 1960's - and now copied and posted all over the internet - that claimed the Allreds of Randolph County descend from the Aldridge family of Northumberland County, VA. This was proven false several years ago - but people will argue with us insisting it is correct because it was in a book or they saw it on the internet. It gets tiring sometimes. The info posted on Senator Obama with reference to the Allred family looks correct at first glance, but I will feel better after documenting it before publishing anything. I appreciate your help with this. And you certainly are not stepping on any toes!!!!! Please don't ever think that. I'm just paranoid about putting something "out there" before documenting it. It is just fussy ole me. Linda -----Original Message----- >From: Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net> >Sent: May 23, 2007 2:44 PM >To: lacooper@mindspring.com, ncrandol@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection > >Linda, > >If you are going to do something, I would certainly not want to do anything that might be in >conflict with what you are doing. Why not just wait and then perhaps we can simply add some small >short thing on the Randolph Co. page. I thought it would be interesting for the researchers to see >but I know you are the Allred authority. > >If Tim does want to do a short piece, why not just pass it by you first to make certain that the 2 >of you agree. Obviously this is not a matter that I have any knowledge about. > >Thanks again to both of you. > >Nola > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <lacooper@mindspring.com> >To: <ncrandol@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:30 PM >Subject: Re: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection > > >> Hi Nola, Tim & Fay: >> >> An article would be very interesting. However, please do not include any mention of the possible >> Allred descendancy until that genealogy has been documented. To my knowledge, this has not been >> properly documented - although it looks good on paper at first glance. >> >> I am thinking of writing an article about the Allred family lineage for our quarterly Allred >> Family Newsletter - possibly the Fall or Winter 2007 issue - but have not started working on the >> article or documentation yet. >> >> Linda Allred Cooper >> www.allredfamily.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >>>From: Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net> >>>Sent: May 23, 2007 1:08 PM >>>To: ncrandol@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: Re: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection >>> >>>Tim, >>> >>>Thanks for all the information. If you would like to work up a small article, I would love to >>>post >>>it on the Randolph Co. web page. >>> >>>Nola >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Tim Walls" <twwalls@prodigy.net> >>>To: "Fay Clark" <gmcflc@bellsouth.net> >>>Cc: "Randolph County NC List" <ncrandol@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:01 AM >>>Subject: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection >>> >>> >>>> Obama also descends from the ALLREDs of Randolph County, NC, most notably Solomon Allred. >>>> >>>> http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html >>>> >>>>>>"In Dreams from my father, Mr. Obama states, on p. 13: " ... one of my >>>>>>great-great-grandfathers, >>>>>>Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife's mother was rumored >>>>>>to >>>>>>have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy". This statement is >>>>>>incorrect, as Christopher Columbus Clark [number 54, above] was Mr. Obama's >>>>>>great-great-great-grandfather, not his great-great-grandfather. >>>> >>>> The rumored connection of Clark's wife's mother, Mrs. Louisiana Duvall Overall [number 111, >>>> above], to Jefferson Davis appears to be incorrect. Barbara Clark Rees, a descendant of Alpheus >>>> Clark, a brother of Christopher Columbus Clark, writes to say that the parents of Alpheus and >>>> Christopher Columbus Clark were Thomas Clark and Elizabeth Davis, and that the correct tradition >>>> is that the relationship to Jefferson Davis is through the mother, not the mother-in-law, of >>>> Christopher Columbus Clark. 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