[APG Public List] We are all cousins

[keli1 at aol.com]

 This video is excellent and oh so true. Thanks! When I make presentations, I always encourage people to not shy away from African or Native American research-if you learn how to research "peoples of color", it will enhance your research. I typically follow a lot of Tony Burroughs recommendations given in his book on African American research, the basics are the way to go. Once we have those down, all the fancy technology "stuff" just helps. Thanks

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Foote <kate at comm1net.net>
To: apgpubliclist at apgen.org; Pat Asher <pjroots at att.net>
Sent: Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:09 pm
Subject: Re: [APG Public List] We are all cousins


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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