From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jan 5 09:00:17 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 k05G0HSK015908; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:00:17 -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 k05G0Efc010835 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:00:14 -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 k05DXkFI014849 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:33:46 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k05DXkex014848 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:33:46 -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 k05D3uFI014727 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:03:56 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k05FUD6D031247 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:30:13 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Kith-n-Kin@cox.net Thu Jan 5 08:30:13 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 k05FUDSK031238 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:30:13 -0700 Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (fed1rmmtao07.cox.net [68.230.241.32]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k05FUANv026941 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:30:11 -0700 Received: from TOWER ([24.255.62.181]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060105152919.LTUO3131.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@TOWER>; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:29:19 -0500 From: "Kith-n-Kin" To: "'Leta Sheaffer'" , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Question Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:30:14 -0700 Message-ID: <016801c6120c$f000a740$6501a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <01f301c6118f$6e2dab00$020aa8c0@NEWCOMPUTER> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id k05FUDSK031238 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Why not ask her what that means. Some possibilities are that they changed their names/identities, or that they escaped some country just ahead of the police/military junta/mob. Or, it may just mean that her "upline" (parents, grandparents) were embarrassed about something (which wouldn't mean a hill of beans now) and refused to talk about the family. If she is interested in her ancestry, you need to help her reconstruct whatever she has been told. All of us know more than we think we do. In other words, what "words" and "sentences" were used to describe the ancestors, what language did the elders speak, when did they immigrate? Just some ideas to get her started. Pat (in Tucson) |-----Original Message----- |From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com |[mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Leta Sheaffer |Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 17:32 |To: ROOTS-M@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 | |