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Subject: Re: Sutton-Tomlinson Fiasco [Was: Tomlinson...]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:51:10 EDT



In a message dated 4/17/01 1:26:18 PM,
writes:

<< 6. Some folks here, including Mr. Finton, seem to believe that this
"Edward Brinton" is possibly a GARD [Gateway Ancestor of Royal Descent]
who immigrated to the New World. >>

Whoa -- I believe there is a 'possibility' of it. There is a difference! All
of this discussion with Paul Reed was about the 'possibility' of a royal
descent -- not the proof of the pudding.

Paul lost the argument because he could not admit that the descent is
'possible'. Since he cannot prove is 'impossible', it was a waste of time.

My entire point if that people like Paul and Charles Hansen do not have the
right to make a godlike pronouncement that this line is a dead end on the
slim evidence they have. It is wrong to do so and will always be wrong. When
uncertainty exists, acknowledge it. Who cares whether John Bagley was a
yeoman or a bowman -- it was where he got his money that was the point in
question.

-Ken

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