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Dang........ I'm Ignorant, Sexist and Narrow Minded.
Best Compliment I've had in over three yrs......things are starting to look up before I pass away (about two yrs from now).
My degree on the wall says I'm far from Ignorant and the fact I've lived this long means I am doing something right.
Too bad for some that the 1st Amendment allows me to refer back re my family tree and it's consequences.
Ignorant, Sexist and Narrow minded........that's me.
EDIT: Noticed the person is from the UK (not American) unfamiliar with our Constitution.
We are distant cousins as I'm a former Canuck (Canadian) born and raised there.
Last edited by Steve Bagu; 08-21-2013 at 01:50 PM..
Reason: Clarify a point or two
Dang........ I'm Ignorant, Sexist and Narrow Minded.
That is not what I said. I said I find your ideas on family history to be such. There is a difference, although your inability to understand the difference certainly suggests otherwise.
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My degree on the wall says I'm far from Ignorant and the fact I've lived this long means I am doing something right.
Plenty of ignorant people have degrees. And living long is hardly a testament to intelligence - plenty of ignorant people live to be 80, 90, even 100.
Do you have anything to say regarding my points about why a correct death certificate may actually be useful in the future or are you just going tout your degree and age some more and hope we don't notice that you don't actually have a valid counter argument?
A person from the UK and educated there.......(a country a few hundred yrs old) may want or desire to know if they came from a ancestral background of some conquest (Rape comes to mind).
Going to school in Canada I did study English/Irish History background of the UK etc.....nothing to brag about....(look at the IRA and the problems)
I am from my mother (Hungary born) and my Paternal Grandparents also from Hungary which is about as far as I wish to go.....100% Hungarian blood to my knowledge.
My children are a mixture of Hungarian and Irish/German blood and my only Grandson is Hungarian/Irish as his mother was an O"Kelly.
Only time my children or Grandchildren had any exposure to a family history was during their Grade School yrs as is common in the US school systems....part of the Education process.
A person from the UK and educated there.......(a country a few hundred yrs old) may want or desire to know if they came from a ancestral background of some conquest (Rape comes to mind).
Going to school in Canada I did study English/Irish History background of the UK etc.....nothing to brag about....(look at the IRA and the problems)
I wasn't bragging about anything - but now you seem to be attempting to insult what you assume to be my ancestry? Still nothing to say about the actual topic at hand - on why an accurate death certificate may be very useful in the future?
I guess your Canadian school didn't teach you that people can be a citizen of one country and a resident of another. FYI, I'm American. I was taught in American schools and moved to the UK was I was 24 years old. I have a couple English branches of my tree but I am mostly of German, Italian, and Norwegian descent.
My Canadian school education started in the 1930's.....Dual Citizenship did not exist those days do believe.
As an American you understand many other Americans as myself are NOT really interested in our ancestral lineage.
And many Americans are.
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I already answered the point as my kids as (Adults/Grandparents) don't give a RATZ behind.....is this clear enough?
And my point was... people change, they could develop an interest in the future and even if they don't, some of them will have kids who may grow up to be interested. I'm not sure why you seem to think that just because they don't show an interest now means none of your descendants, not even 20, 30, 40, 100 years from now, will ever pick it up. Why is that so difficult for you to comprehend? You seem to have no real response to this - you just keep trying to change the subject or reiterate what you've already said with no consideration to the points I've made.
Mistakes happen all the time. On the death certificate for one of my great grandmothers, it lists her step father as her biological father. I always wonder what they used for references back then (she died in 1924).
Nearly every old death cert I have seen shows who the "Informant" was.
Sometimes it's an in-law,a grand kid, a niece or nephew, who in your case may not have known the "father" was a step-father. On one of mine the deceased's own daughter got "place of birth" wrong.
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