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 > >

Pat, I guess some people are just afraid of genetics because they don't understand it. Maybe they do equate it with fingerprinting! If I were you, I hope I'd go to that family reunion and hold my head up. I have an idea there will be somebody there who agrees with you. My sister and I can't easily take the genetic route because our lines are a crazy quilt that jumps from male to female and back again just about every generation. I wish it weren't so. One, maybe more, of the people I correspond with uses this tag line, "If you have a family skeleton, make it dance!" Or something like that. I'm fond of family skeletons. They make life interesting! Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: <pkcb113@bellsouth.net> To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:26 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