From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jan 4 18:34:56 2006 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 k051YuSK018280; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:34:56 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k051YuU5028772 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:34:56 -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 k04N8UFI012718 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:08:30 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k04N8UQU012717 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:08:30 -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 k04M5YFI012563 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:05:34 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k050YKoC025368 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:34:20 -0700 X-Envelope-From: leta.sheaffer@verizon.net Wed Jan 4 17:34:20 2006 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 k050YKSK025357 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:34:20 -0700 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k050Vld6017480 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:31:47 -0700 Received: from NEWCOMPUTER ([70.22.62.86]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0ISL00ECPG4WEE8A@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:31:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:31:54 -0500 From: "Leta Sheaffer" To: Message-id: <01f301c6118f$6e2dab00$020aa8c0@NEWCOMPUTER> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Question A friend of mine mentioned that her ancestry cannot be researched, because her families were considered criminals. Does this mean they may have entered illegally ? Certainly they were not all thieves. The surname was Spanos Thank you for your answers Leta