Hard for some people to understand and/or accept modern technology. colleen ----- Original Message ----- From: <pkcb113@bellsouth.net> To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Re: [WILSON-L] Genetic Testing > I wouldn't say excommunicated from the family reunion exactly, but I am not sure how I will be treated when I go to it. I can imagine them hiding their cups so I can't get a fingerprint or turning their back to me. I guess CSI and Police Television shows really made an impression. I thought perhaps they maybe hiding something too, but one lady told me about a family member in prison for bootlegging whiskey in 1930's and she raised her brother's twin boys, because he wouldn't and the wife wouldn't. Stuff happens in all families and if I wanted dirt, I'd go about it differently. I knew about the guy in prison I just didn't know what he was in for. I just can't get any further back without genetics. > > Pat > > > > > > From: "Anne Haines" <annerhai@adelphia.net> > > Date: 2003/06/16 Mon PM 04:12:14 EDT > > To: WILSON-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: Re: [WILSON-L] Genetic Testing > > > > Have you really been excommunicated from a family reunion? These people act > > like they have something to hide--or think they do. It's really sad! > > > > Anne > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <pkcb113@bellsouth.net> > > To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:44 PM > > Subject: Re: Re: [WILSON-L] Genetic Testing > > > > > > > List or testing coordinator: > > > > > > > > > I think I have found a nephew to my ggrandfather Wilson living in Monroe > > > County, WV. Now whether he will test is another problem. > > > > > > I have not met him yet and I plan to do that this summer immediately!! He > > is > > > 85. but has a son 53. If nothing else, I want to meet him and get > > pictures and > > > data. My problem is I need a way to request this procedure without > > intimitating > > > or causing fear. I have approached 2 other family members, Bozeman and > > > Hamilton and they act like I am the FBI and trying to pin something on > > them. > > > They don't write back and I hate that I have been excommunicated from the > > > family with a family reunion coming up in September. These 2 families I > > just > > > found last year and was making progress, now nothing. They both were > > > interested in genealogy with their respected lines and we shared our lines > > and they understood wanting to get further back, but ingnorance, fear or > > getting > > > involved put up a road block. > List owner > > > WILSON-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > > List owner > > WILSON-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > List owner > WILSON-admin@rootsweb.com > >

On 17 Jun 03, at 14:53, Colleen Wilson wrote: > Hard for some people to understand and/or accept modern technology. > colleen That and some people just don't want any of their information "out there". I know plenty of folks who don't let their children be photographed by anyone but them, who only pay with cash, and who refuse to be fingerprinted. Then there are the folks who don't want the skeletons to come out of the closet. Sandy SDG