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Re: Friday Funnies...a bit early



Here at the Oregon State University Archives, we get requests for
information on great-great-grandfather/grandmother who was a professor here
and started the English Department, the law school (we don't have a law
school), head of the ROTC, etc.  Or he was the football player who scored
the winning touchdown in (take your choice of years)...  Then we look and
find out that either he/she never attended, or perhaps taught here a few
years as an instructor.  It is funny how these family legends grow...

Janet Wendt
Janet M. Wendt, C.A.
Staff Archivist
Oregon State University Archives
94 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2103
Phone: 541-737-4050
Fax: 541-737-0541
E-mail: Janet.Wendt@orst.edu
Website:  http//osu.orst.edu/Dept/archives


-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly, Shelly H [mailto:Kellysh@CL.UH.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:31 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Friday Funnies...a bit early


Paula (and others)

I had to laugh when I read this -- we have a Lee family on my father's side
and YEP, during my childhood I was constantly told that we were related to
Robt E. Lee!

Of course, I grew up, helped my mom do our genealogy and found the Lee
family quite content (and unrelated to the General) in Georgia.

The "Indian named Jane" was also on my Dad's line.   Never found any proof.
LOL!

Shelly Kelly


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skreslet, Paula [SMTP:PSkreslet@UNION-PSCE.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:14 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Friday Funnies...a bit early
>
> Here in Virginia, they're all related to Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
> or
> some other Confederate hero.  And they all want to tell me exactly *how*
> they're related!!
>
> My husband has a theory that a lot of genealogizing is sort of a
> middle-class-white-person backlash against diminution of identity through
> the rise of American diversity ... sort of like NASCAR, or gun shows.
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Linda Reynolds [mailto:lreynold@SFASU.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:46 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Friday Funnies...a bit early
>
>
> I loved it.  Number 9 was my favorite, I would put the word Cherokee
> into it.  It seems like every fifth persons great grandmother was a
> Cherokee Princess.
>
>
> Linda Reynolds
> Asst. Director, East Texas Research Center
> Stephen F. Austin State University
> Box 13055, SFA Station
> Nacogdoches, TX 75962
> (936)468-1562
> lreynold@sfasu.edu
>
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