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From: "Gallagher" <>
Subject: [KYMASON-L] Fw: [MDALLEGA-L] Fw: [leas] Fw: [dunlap] MURPHY'S LAWS
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:05:29 -0400


... remember when...?
Adrienne

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> From: Brigmaster <>
> To:
> Subject: [MDALLEGA-L] Fw: [leas] Fw: [dunlap] MURPHY'S LAWS
> Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 2:39 PM
>
>
> Allegany cousins;
>
> a little brevity from another source
>
> you may want to check the source
>
> onelist for family names
>
> Rich
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K.E. Stuart <>
> To: Leas @onelist.com <>
> Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 12:17 PM
> Subject: [leas] Fw: [dunlap] MURPHY'S LAWS
>
>
> >From: "K.E. Stuart" <>
> >
> >
> >Hello to those who have joined the LEAS list:
> >
> > Thought the Labor Day Weekend would be a good time to begin and will
be
> >posting some things this afternoon.
> >
> > In the meantime, this came across from another list I'm on and I
> >thought you
> >might enjoy it.
> >
> > Have a good and safe Laborday Weekend.
> >
> > Murphy's Laws of Genealogy
> >
> >: THE PUBLIC CEREMONY IN WHICH YOUR DISTINGUISHED ANCESTOR PART-
> >: ICIPATED AND AT WHICH THE PLATFORM COLLAPSED UNDER HIM TURNED
> >: OUT TO BE A HANGING.
> >:
> >: WHEN AT LAST AFTER MUCH HARD WORK YOU HAVE SOLVED THE MYST-
> >: ERY YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR TWO YEARS, YOUR AUNT SAYS,
> >: "I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT!"
> >:
> >: YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME THAT YOU HAVE SEARCHED FOR FOUR YEARS
WAS
> >ON A LETTER BOX IN THE ATTIC ALL THE TIME.
> >:
> >: YOU NEVER ASKED YOUR FATHER ABOUT HIS FAMILY WHEN HE WAS ALIVE
> >: BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY THEN.
> >:
> >: THE WILL YOU NEED IS IN THE SAFE ON BOARD THE TITANIC.
> >:
> >: COPIES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS HAVE HOLES OCCURRING ONLY ON THE
> >: SURNAMES.
> >:
> >: JOHN, SON OF THOMAS, THE IMMIGRANT WHOM YOUR RELATIVES CLAIM AS
> >: THE FAMILY PROGENITOR, DIED ON BOARD SHIP AT AGE 10.
> >:
> >: YOUR GRANDFATHER'S NEWSPAPER OBITUARY STATES THAT HE DIED
> >: LEAVING NO ISSUE OF RECORD.
> >:
> >: THE KEEPER OF VITAL RECORDS YOU NEED HAS JUST BEEN INSULTED BY
> >: ANOTHER GENEALOGIST.
> >:
> >: THE RELATIVE WHO HAD ALL THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS GAVE THEM ALL TO HER
> >DAUGHTER
> >: WHO HAS NO INTEREST IN GENEALOGY AND NO IN-
> >: CLANATION TO SHARE.
> >:
> >: THE ONLY RECORD YOU FIND FOR YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER IS THAT HIS
> >: PROPERTY WAS SOLD AT A SHERIFF'S SALE FOR INSOLVENCY.
> >:
> >: THE ONE DOCUMENT THAT WULD SUPPLY THE MISSING LINK IN YOUR DEAD-
> >: END LINE HAS BEEN LOST DUE TO FIRE, FLOOD OR WAR.
> >:
> >: THE TOWN CLERK TO WHOM YOU WROTE FOR THE INFORMATION SENDS
> >: YOU A LONG HANDWRITTEN LETTER WHICH IS TOTALLY ILLEGIBLE.
> >:
> >: THE SPELLING FOR YOUR EUROPEAN ANCESTOR'S NAME BEARS NO
> >: RELATIONSHIP TO ITS CURRENT SPELLING OR PRONUNCIATION.
> >:
> >: NONE OF THE PICTURES IN YOUR RECENTLY DECEASED GRANDMOTHER'S PHOTO
ALBUM
> >HAVE
> >: NAMES WRITTEN ON THEM.
> >:
> >: NO ONE IN YOUR FAMILY TREE EVER DID ANYTHING NOTEWORTHY, OWNED
> >: PROPERTY, WAS SUED OR WAS NAMED IN WILLS.
> >:
> >: YOU LEARN THAT YOUR GREAT AUNT'S EXECUTOR JUST SOLD HER LIFE'S
> >: COLLECTION OF FAMILY GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS TO A FLEA MARKET
> >: DEALER "SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK CITY".
> >:
> >: INK FADES AND PAPER DETERIORATES AT A RATE INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO
THE
> >VALUE
> >: OF THE DATA RECORDED.
> >:
> >: THE 37 VOLUMES, SIXTEEN THOUSAND PAGE HISTORY OF YOUR COUNTY
> >: OR ORIGIN ISN'T INDEXED.
> >:
> >: YOU FINALLY FIND YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENT'S WEDDING RECORDS AND
> >: DISCOVER THAT THE BRIDE'S FATHER WAS NAMED JOHN SMITH.
> >:
> >:
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> >
> >Tell others you know who are researching the LEAS family. The more of
us
> >that
> >can discuss, the more information we can put together.
> >
> > Kathryn
> >
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