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From: "Varick" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Brave New World of Genealogy
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 06:45:27 -0400
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Or the adage, "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out it
alive!"

Stop, smell the flowers and smile at the jokes.

Floreda




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Reiley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Brave New World of Genealogy


> Sorry, but when you ponder on it you'll find there is nothing for the
> genealogist Aunt to worry about. A genealogist is a detective for one or
> more genetic lines. Things like surrogate mothers are merely facts about
the
> birth. Just like date and location. The natural parents are the two who
> provided egg and sperm. It is merely a matter of facts as to who gave
birth
> or even raised the child. There are natural parents, foster parents,
> adoptive parents and godparents. Something that every genealogist has to
> deal with. All the facts are pertinent about anyone. As genealogists our
job
> is to uncover those facts. The nice thing about surrogate mothers and
sperm
> donors is there should be very precise documentation to prove the genetic
> line. Something that we normally have to assume. Remember the adage,
> "mother's baby, father's maybe."
>
> Sorry to be a spoilsport.
>
> Best wishes,
> Dennis Reiley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:25 PM
> Subject: [NJHUNTER] Brave New World of Genealogy
>
>
> > Forgive me!! I just had to share this little joke (?!) which was
> from
> > the November TAFT TALK and republished in the Newsletter of the Rhode
> Island
> > Genealogical Society:
> >
> > " A modern mother is explaining to her little girl the pictures in
> the
> > family's photo album. 'This is the geneticist with your surrogate
mother,
> and
> > here's your sperm donor and your father's clone. This is me holding you
> when
> > you were just a frozen embryo.
> > The lady with the very troubled look on her face is your aunt;
> she's
> > the family genalogist.' "
> >
> > Something to ponder.
> > Kay
> >
> >
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> > http://members.aol.com/njysprez/index.htm
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy
records,
> go to:
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
> >
>
>
> ==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ====
> Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at:
> http://members.aol.com/njysprez/index.htm
>
>
> ==============================
> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,
go to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
>

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