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Skriven 2005-04-08 19:15:36 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
     Kommentar till en text av Ward Dossche
Ärende: Re: NIMBY
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*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

> Much more interesting is how the etheopian lady came into our lines.
> Bought at a slave auction 2 years before the civil war, her stories that
> came down in tradition are something out of a pure romance novel
> Cinderella style.  I have no way to prove any of it, but why did the
> family preserve the stories if not true?  Neither were politically
> correct for WASP type USA folks to claim, so ....  Interesting is that
> she was also a renound cook.  Something tells me the male ancestors of
> mine thought with their stomachs <g>.
WD>  
WD> Write this all down or it will become lost. The age of oral transfer o
WD> knowledge has come to an end... unfortunately. Many of both my grandmo
WD> stories etc... have become lost. A pity.

Sadly that is true, but it's been true for ages or we'd all know our ancestors
since middle-ages on down.

The wierd thing is my family crops up a historian every 3 or 4 generations so
we have a track. None of them however tracked every line all the way out so
there are gaps, but with facinating glimpses that show a *few* were not so
very restrictive as the newspapers of the times may have made one seem.

If all one kew was the media, no 'white' americans would admit to having a
black etheopoean or Anerican Indian blood line.  At the same time, my family
was preserving the stories of them and how it was special ladies and we were
lucky to have them and proud to be a part of that heritage they brought to us.

I really lucked up in the looks due to the mix.  The long nose of the Etheope
(unfortunately got the flatter bulb at the bottom too) the cheeks of the
Indian and the outer iris of a darker color (both).  Sadly the bone ivory from
the english side (I sunpoison fast if not very careful) and when younger, had
the red-brown hair of the scotts side with still the thick heavy hair of the
American indian that is straight but takes a curl at the whim of a brush.

Heck, I'm a pretty mongrel ;-)
                                       xxcarol

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