I think this was the whole point. I could go to Walmart and run into a ninth cousin without either of us even knowing it. All this talk about being descendants of King so-and-so or Adam and Eve is just so much talk. As my favorite researcher likes to say: PROVE IT Craig Kilby On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:55 AM, marianne dillow wrote: > I am the one who posted about Barack Obama and myself being 9th > cousins through Conway, Eltonhead, Thacker grandparents in Virginia.

Hi Craig,    It is proven all the way from me through my Mother's lines by wills and other records. That is all that is required... records,.. wills, etc. I have a will on each generation etc. That is called genealogy and research. Have a good day :)   Marianne Dillow   --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Craig Kilby <persisto@earthlink.net> wrote: From: Craig Kilby <persisto@earthlink.net> Subject: It's all relative To: mdillow31@verizon.net, vaculpep@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:11 AM I think this was the whole point.  I could go to Walmart and run into a ninth cousin without either of us even knowing it.  All this talk about being descendants of King so-and-so or Adam and Eve is just so much talk.   As my favorite researcher likes to say: PROVE IT Craig Kilby On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:55 AM, marianne dillow wrote: I am the one who posted about Barack Obama and myself being 9th cousins through Conway, Eltonhead, Thacker grandparents in Virginia.

to be truthful those of that can trace our ancestry is only because they did come from the higher ranks of people as the serfs did not keep their lineage.  But the only thing that that means is that somewhere on down the line we are all related somewhere on the family tree.    I tell my Aunt that my mother lied when she said we were Scots, Irish, French and Indian.  I do believe that i have found a relative in almost every country in the world  which means that I am Heinz 57.  hehe   We laugh and figure the reason we have bad tempers is the Scots, Irish and Sicilian in us and the cold calculating from the English, Swede, Danish etc. and other temperments from others in the background. Dee H. genluver_2@yahoo.com I cannot breathe life into you I can only be. --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Craig Kilby <persisto@earthlink.net> wrote: From: Craig Kilby <persisto@earthlink.net> Subject: [VACULPEP] It's all relative To: mdillow31@verizon.net, vaculpep@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 10:11 PM I think this was the whole point. I could go to Walmart and run into a ninth cousin without either of us even knowing it. All this talk about being descendants of King so-and-so or Adam and Eve is just so much talk. As my favorite researcher likes to say: PROVE IT Craig Kilby On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:55 AM, marianne dillow wrote: > I am the one who posted about Barack Obama and myself being 9th > cousins through Conway, Eltonhead, Thacker grandparents in Virginia. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACULPEP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That's correct Mr. Kilby. I say...give me a paper trail.

Well, DNA may be an ultimate proof over any paper trail, at least in general regarding a distant ancestor....human nature and all that....'biology' could reveal that the paper trails are not always correct (legal and official perhaps...and passing muster as far as generally accepted genealogy research and records principles). Except for cases that actually made it to court...a lot can be hidden in paper that could be exposed by science. Just my humble thoughts. I will say that I wish I had been more thorough and had adhered to a higher standard (unknown to me but ignorance is not really an excuse) in my early 'research' and had taken a LOT less at face value. So far, as I have obtained vital records, tax records, etc. (and to some extent census records), nothing has been shown to be glaringly wrong. I do have some of the early Germanna kin mis-aligned because I took them directly from the Records or from others. Once entered into FTM, it's not so easy to extricate and realign. Sigh. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Marge <msealock@mchsi.com> wrote: > That's correct Mr. Kilby. I say...give me a paper trail. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VACULPEP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Kathleen Bowen Simons Falls Church, Virginia IMAGE - a No. VA Christian church whose mission is simple: Worship. Community. Service. www.thisisimage.com (click on the Audio icon to hear Pastor Chris' messages!) Listen to a beautiful song, "Feel the Ocean Calling," by Roderick C. Simons: http://www.myspace.com/roderickcsimons