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Hello Thurston - 

>>>>> A Couple to Senior Citizens and the rest to a Genelogy
>>>>> Library Group. 

CA>>>> I'm not clear about how 'genealogy' fits into our
CA>>>> culture. 

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CA>> I think people continue to research until they find
CA>> someone they feel is 'important' that they can document
CA>> and then slow down or stop. It's an ego thing from what I
CA>> can see. 

CA>> I don't really like it myself. I have a cousin who is
CA>> doing this frantically and she just so happens to have
CA>> recently become financially 'successful'. It's the old buy
CA>> a European title thing at the yuppie level I think. :-\ 

TA> There may be a few that fit that role; but as a practiceing
TA> genealogist for more than 25 years, 

What is a "practicing geneologist"? 

TA> I can attest that most of the increased interest (aside
TA> from some members of the Morman faith were ancestry has a
TA> very importent facility) 

OK, the LDS want to baptize them, what do the Mormons want to
do with the dead? 

TA> is motovated more by the fact that our familiies are much
TA> more distributed by distance and nationalities than
TA> previous to WWI, so many progeny are reaching out to
TA> determine what their roots are. 

Why? 

TA> Point of note: I have an English-French-German=Yankee
TA> heritage.

Is 'yankee' the more modern mask used for American Indian?

TA> My children have that plus Italian DNA, and my
TA> grandchildren have all of those plus Polish-Hungarian and
TA> Russian heritage. I think of them as prime examples of
TA> todays American-Americans, and no europeon nobility to
TA> speak of (except some DNA from a "natural son" of the
TA> prolific King Joseph Bonaparte, that few often brag about
TA> 8-(. 

There is no
English-French-German-Italian-Polish-Hungarian-Russian
"heritage" other than a few minor physical differences but
those can lay dormant (recessive genes) for many generations. 

TA> Not everything in our modern world has a negative influence 

As an American I fail to see the significance. Male/female and
adult/child and relatives within the 2nd cousin range are
important differences, everthing else is irrelevant to me.
Intermarriage with near-relatives giving rise to abnormalities
in the children and being illegal etc. Of course with short
fences and fence-hopping parents we may never know which is
probably one reason adultery has always been a taboo. Your
child could unknowingly marry a sibling. 

You cannot inherit anything but physical appearances from
ancestors and what a person looks like is only marginally of
value in any real sense. 

Much todo about nothing.

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