From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jan 1 12:30:29 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01JUThh030740; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:30:29 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01JUSxt008114 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:30:28 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01IFgtW014198 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:15:42 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id j01IFgdC014197 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:15:42 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01Eq1tW013703 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:52:01 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j01G6epi010775 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:06:40 -0700 X-Envelope-From: glentodd@pcisys.net Sat Jan 1 09:06:40 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01G6ehh010766 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:06:40 -0700 Received: from krusty.pcisys.net (krusty.pcisys.net [216.229.32.178]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01G6dxt021161 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:06:39 -0700 Received: from harpo (24-56-181-144.co.warpdriveonline.com [24.56.181.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by krusty.pcisys.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01G6hQL007778 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:06:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Glen Todd" To: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:06:43 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200501011115.j01BFx7R007707@lists5.rootsweb.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] RE: ROOTS-L Digest V04 #587 > Reminds me of a story my aunt told about her first trip to the > Family History Library in SLC. Her husband, bless his heart, > was not quite dozing over his reading material while she > busily pulled tree after tree from various sources. > > He looked up to her excited "Look, look, this author has our > family all the way back to Adam!!!" > > To which he slowly replied, "Adam? Adam who?" Now THAT is funny. I generally discard out of hand trees that show 'descent' from such mythological figures, as they tend to suggest - to put it mildly - that the 'research' that went into preparing the tree is suspect. That's a great way of deflating such pseudo-intellectual pomposity, though. Thanks for sharing. Glen