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Maestro

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:05 PM
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I'm related to Mark Twain.

I have to go back 7 generations for a shared ancestor, but I am still related. :)

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crim son

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:18 PM
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1. No way... that is incredibly cool.

I love Mark Twain; therefore by definition I love you. :)

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Maestro

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:38 PM
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2. Awww Thanks. I really like Twain too.

And I have finally established a link to James Fenimore Cooper on the same side of the family. Again, I have to go back to the 1600's where the family branches off, but I am very distantly related to Cooper as well.

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crim son

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:43 PM
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3. So you are descended from American literary elites.

That's better than royalty, Maestro.

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Maestro

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:44 PM
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5. It's a shame I can not write like them.

Heck I would just love to have the wit of Twain!

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Left Is Write

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:44 PM
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4. That's pretty cool!

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Maestro

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:46 PM
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6. Thanks.

I have actually found most of the tombstones of the members of the family above me on the left. Most are in what was a very small town just north of Ft. Worth, Texas. Now, of course, it is smack dab in the middle of suburbia.

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Poiuyt

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Sat Feb-24-07 11:55 PM
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7. I have this Mark Twain book in my collection:

Edited on Sat Feb-24-07 11:56 PM by Poiuyt

They have to explain who Mark Twain is. "You know, Mark Twain, the author of Innocents Abroad!"

BTW, My aunt was related to John Greenleaf Whittier

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Maestro

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Sun Feb-25-07 02:24 PM
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11. That is neat.

Is it an original printing?

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dropkickpa

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Sun Feb-25-07 12:05 AM
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8. How freakin' cool is that?!

The coolest person I'm related to is I am the 10th great grandaughter of the only woman ever tried for witchcraft in Pennsylvania, the witch of Ridley Creek. She was convicted of having the reputation of a witch by William Penn and sentenced to 6 months good behavior.

Tradition has it that William Penn said to her: "Art thou a witch? Hast thou ridden through the air on a broomstick?" When thshe answered, "Yes," he said that she had a perfect right to ride upon a broomstick, that he knew no law whatever against it, and promptly ordered her discharge. This was the only witchcraft trial ever before the Pennsylvania Courts.

http://books.google.com/books?id=G5VdDdAd5rMC&pg=RA1-PA120&lpg=RA1-PA120&dq=pennsylvania+witchcraft+trial+%22margaret+mattson%22&source=web&ots=_9xeTS0Fr-&sig=mka_aW_9TKMy7bk3iReFoH0S5oY#PRA1-PA120,M1

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BlueStorm

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Sun Feb-25-07 12:10 AM
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9. I wish I could find my ancestral lineage...

I bet it would take years to find out.

It would be so cool to find out who I am related to down to atleast 8 generations.

Blue

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Maestro

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Sun Feb-25-07 02:23 PM
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10. Ancestry.com is a goldmine

Once you are there, you can not connect with others who are searching for the same members of the family. I have found 3 distant cousins this way and then we share our collective information which leads to more finds. That is how I found my Mark Twain connection and James Fenimore Cooper connection.

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