[APG Public List] We are all cousins

[Kate Foote]

Well said, Pat. This is a message that really needs to be heard and assimilated. As always, Elizabeth says it so beautifully - and with class! ;-)

Kate

PS: ...think I'll post it to Facebook!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pat Asher 
  To: apgpubliclist at apgen.org 
  Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:51 PM
  Subject: [APG Public List] We are all cousins


  I was delighted to see and want to congratulate Elizabeth Shown-Mills 
  on the video about "cousinship".

  http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/09/we-are-all-cousins-a-video-by-elizabeth-shown-mills.html

  Anyone who has done serious research back more than a couple of 
  generations knows that family legends are suspect, including Choctaw 
  (in my case Cherokee) princesses.  OTOH, mixed ethnicity is real and 
  our ancestors interacted on many levels.  I remember laughing out 
  loud when I discovered that my husband's third great grandfather had 
  witnessed a deed executed by my own 3rd or 4th great grandfather, a 
  few hundred miles and years before we met and married.

  If we keep saying "we are all related" often enough, maybe the 
  message will eventually stick.

  Pat Asher



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