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Subject: Re: [HARRIS-DNA] Ivo de Heriz
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:15:35 EDT



Gregg,

Please allow me to answer a part of your response to Michael Harris.

Yes, there is proof of Harris ancestry in England and Scotland all the way
back to the 11th century, both by conventional research as well as DNA results.

Your little "Mom the Librarian" story is as cute as it can be, although I
think the sarcasm is out of line and totally unnecessary, but you can't really
believe that's the way genealogical research is done, or that someone of
Michael Harris' extraordinary research ability is resorting to guess work on such
a grand scale. If you do, then it seems to indicate that you have very
little experience in genealogical research and have no basic knowledge of how it
is accomplished, except possibly in the 19th or 20th century, in which, this
type of research is quite easy, even for the novice.

For your information, there have been many talented genealogical researchers
working on the Harris lines of England and Scotland for the last 100 years
that I am aware of, and the work continues, even today. I can assure you that
it is much more difficult than finding a page in the 1850 census.

Sincerely,
James E. Hargraves


In a message dated 5/24/2005 5:04:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

Michael,

I don't think you answered my question - can any of the participants prove
their descent from the folks you mentioned?

It seems to me that you are arguing that because a line likely originated in
place X, and because some records were found with a similar name in place X,
that the line therefore originated with the person named in the records. If
that were the case, then you could conclude that my high school librarian
was my mom...after all, she was named BONNER, and was in the right place at
the right time, and was even of the right age (and my mom is known to have
been a librarian).






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