[Ads-l] ancestor

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From a lengthy and super-detailed discussion at a genealogy website:

"Nobody will really know about us when we're gone, either, except for our
own ancestors."

http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/ffolder/schreckengost.html

JL

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> From another site today: "Thompson's birth is given as 1805 by one of you
> and 1808 by another? Can anyone clarify that? I appear to be his ancestor
> as
> my father owns an ivory miniature of one William Francis Thompson dated
> 1834."
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> JL
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