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From: "PME" <>
Subject: Re: Why we won't do lookups
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:09:28 +0100
References: <200107011714.f61HEeI32458@smtp.freeola.enta.net>


Dear Mr Kirk,

Clearly you do not know Eve or her publications. Neither do you
appreciate how she freely and generously she gives genealogical
guidance to all who ask for help.


Moira

LDS Volunteer

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----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: 01 July 2001 19:02
Subject: Re: Why we won't do lookups


: I believe Eve McLaughlin <> wrote.....
:
: >> >is only a
: > >matter of time before Felix Kirk comes running to the rescue
again telling
: > >us what a dedicated genealogist Roy is.
: >
: > It is really sad to use an alias to praise yourself.<<
: >
: > --
: > Eve McLaughlin
: >
: > Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
: > Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society<<
:
: I have just returned to this group after an absence of some weeks in
: America, visiting relatives in Virginia and Florida, and chasing up
a
: few odds and ends of my research into the American Civil War, one of
: my principal areas of historical interest.
:
: I return to find myself once again accused of being someone else,
: which is not only a little disconcerting but positively damaging to
: the ego. Can a man not be allowed to display his own personality to
: the doubting world without being accused of being a clone or having
a
: doppelganger?
:
: I rather thought I had explained some time ago that my alias (as
: such, admittedly, it is), is taken from one Felix Kirk Zollicoffer
: (1812-1862), a Confederate brigadier general from Tennessee who met
: his sad demise on January 18 1862 at Mill Springs, Kentucky, when he
: inadvertently charged into a company of Union troops and began
: issuing orders to them, thinking they were on his side, and was
: thereupon promptly shot dead by the Union captain.
:
: I am, in fact, contemplating a novel based around the unfortunate
: Felix, who must have been either one of the unluckier victims of the
: American Civil War or very short-sighted (and perhaps both). Do not
: tell me, I beg of you, that novels about that particular war are not
: exactly a new literary phenomonen. I am aware of someone called
: Margaret Mitchell who wrote a rather succesful one and, more
: recently, a chap called John Jakes who wrote an excellent trilogy.
: However, mine would be different, since the hero Felix Kirk
: Zollicoffer was an undoubted loser, and how often does one find
: that in a novel? When I have sold the film rights to Hollywood and
: made millions of dollars, I trust the doubters here will be feeling
: suitably contrite.
:
: Can I help it if my chosen alias happens to coincide with the name
of
: a village in Yorkshire where I believe the person I am accused of
: representing - or should that be misrepresenting? - once had a
remote
: ancestor who was either the Lord of the Manor of Thirsk or the
Hooded
: Flasher of Marston Moor, according to which version you believe?
:
: PS - I am sure Ms McLaughlin, whom I have never met, is a splendid
: lady, but I wonder if it is in order to constantly advertise her own
: publications here? Is this not, equally, self praise? I thought
there
: were rules about that sort of thing. Were I to advertise my
: own published writings, there would be little room left for others
to
: unleash their vituperation against the unfortunate Mr Stockdill.
:
: Felix
:
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