From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jul 13 10:27:27 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6DGRRjb017195; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:27:27 -0600 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 k6DGRPYY016980 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:27:25 -0600 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 k6DDniFI005488 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:49:44 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6DDnigq005487 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:49:44 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6DCoWFI005311 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:50:32 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6DFS4ph017251 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:28:04 -0600 X-Envelope-From: hornbeck@s-hornbeck.com Thu Jul 13 09:28:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6DFS4jb017242 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:28:04 -0600 Received: from smtp110.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp110.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.243]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6DFRwgo012646 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:28:01 -0600 Received: (qmail 77454 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2006 15:27:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Shirley.s-hornbeck.com) (shirleyhornbeck@sbcglobal.net@66.122.5.141 with login) by smtp110.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2006 15:27:54 -0000 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20060713082244.029ea4e8@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:27:47 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Shirley Hornbeck Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] This and That GEnealogy Tips - Interesting Historical Trivia #3 England and some European countries are old and small and the local folks were running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When re-opening these coffins, one of out twenty-five were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night, (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered "a dead ringer." And that's the truth. Now, whoever said history was boring. Shirley Hornbeck - THIS & THAT GENEALOGY TIPS: