[or-roots] confused subject lines

[Harguess, Dale]

I have a theory that if you have been neighbors for generations, chances
are you are kin, if you go back far enough.
My family was very close with some neighbors for years and in fact I am
still close with the daughter who was my age (we're talking over 63
years).  After I started doing genealogy for awhile I decided to work on
hers and sure enough I found a mutual ancestor back in the late 1600's.
Our families traveled together from Pennsylvania through North Carolina
to Oregon and eventually here in California.  Kind of spooky in a way.
Dale


I am sure that was her intent; the problem with this one lies in the
fact
that as near as I could follow it the "man with Amnesia" discussion
invovled
a number of family names and some of what was posted was relevant to
those
same family names, but not in fact directly related to the "man"

I have been too lazy to try and unravel it all but when the discussion
wandered into London Springs it did at least get my attention as that is
just over the hill from where I grew up and I have lately had extensive
conversations with some of the folks from there about their family
heritage.
As I mentioned to some of them my family and thiers have been neighbors
for
so long they feel like family even though they aren't kin.

Certainly we all need to remember that others appreciate it if we take
an
extra minute to clean up our post and be certain of such details before
hitting the send button. We need to be grateful that Layne doesn't make
us
adhere to a rigid posting policy as do some lists and try not to abuse
that
fact.

Les Chapman