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> From: Amber Dalakas <am1@stratos.net>
> To: sinclair@jump.net
> Subject: Re: GuestBook
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 7:22 PM
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> >Oh, rubbish - you don;'t want to talk to you Scottish people at all it
> >seems.
> >--
> >Jean Haddow
>
>
> Jean:
>
> I just had to respond to your last couple of messages. It seems that I
> sometimes feel just the opposite of how you feel. Of all of the
genealogy
> research I have done over the past 20 years, I have never gotten out of
> America.
>
> I sometimes feel that this Sinclair list is way over my head with the
talk
> of Clans and Scotland, etc. I can't even get past 1800 (with the St.
Clair
> Branch) and I'm still in the hills of Virginia.
>
> I know for myself if I could know that my ancestor originated in a
certain
> locality and I linked with others outside of the U.S. I would be thrilled
to
> talk with them and share with them. It's just never happened for me.
> Actually in most of my *branches* I'm most like still in the hills of
> Virginia, or Pennsylvania and possibly even up to New York or New Jersey
but
> still in the U.S. and takes me back on many/most lines back to the 1700s.
>
> I know I've been frustrated at times with the Sinclair list became it
seems
> NO ONE is from Virginia or West Virginia, or maybe just a couple. It
seems
> to me that everyone's already gotten across the Atlantic and knows just
> where they belong but me.
>
> I'm too afraid of missing something to unsubscribe. I guess many of us
> subscribe for different reasons.
>
> Jean, I hope you won't give up on us and I hope I interpreted your
message
> correctly. It's wonderful to share heritage. I know my heritage lies in
> Scotland with the Sinclairs, just not quite sure where/when/who. So
maybe
> you could share with us about where you're from and we could do likewise.
>
> Sorry for being lengthy.
>
> Amber St. Clair Dalakas
> am1@stratos.net
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