<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18943"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">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! ;-)</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman"></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">Kate</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman"></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">PS: ...think I'll post it to Facebook!</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pjroots@att.net href="mailto:pjroots@att.net">Pat Asher</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:51 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [APG Public List] We are all cousins</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I was delighted to see and want to congratulate Elizabeth Shown-Mills <BR>on the video about "cousinship".<BR><BR><A href="http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/09/we-are-all-cousins-a-video-by-elizabeth-shown-mills.html">http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/09/we-are-all-cousins-a-video-by-elizabeth-shown-mills.html</A><BR><BR>Anyone who has done serious research back more than a couple of <BR>generations knows that family legends are suspect, including Choctaw <BR>(in my case Cherokee) princesses.  OTOH, mixed ethnicity is real and <BR>our ancestors interacted on many levels.  I remember laughing out <BR>loud when I discovered that my husband's third great grandfather had <BR>witnessed a deed executed by my own 3rd or 4th great grandfather, a <BR>few hundred miles and years before we met and married.<BR><BR>If we keep saying "we are all related" often enough, maybe the <BR>message will eventually stick.<BR><BR>Pat Asher<BR> <P> <HR> <P></P><BR>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG - <A href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</A> <BR>Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3115 - Release Date: 09/05/10 01:34:00<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>