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From: "M Keith Ellingsworth" <>
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:35:04 -0400


"repetitious"
Is that like more icing on the cake ?
Keith

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From: Arthur R Cullen <>
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Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)

>The way the families on the Eastern Shore intermarried with each other I
>didn't need
>1,048,576 people on this planet to produce me. 240,235 was enough. If I
>counted any more it would be repetitious.
>Rich
>
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>Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 5:25 PM
>Subject: (no subject)
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>>Hi
>> I promised I would send this to Jill. I know many have already seen
it
>>but for those of you who haven't enjoy.
>>
>> WHAT A BACKGROUND
>> The next time you are feeling rather unimportant. Try a little
>>arithmetic trick
>> based on the undebateable fact that it took two people, your
parents
>to
>>get
>> you here. Each of you parents have two parents. So in the
generation
>>prior
>> to your mother and fater there were four people whose pairing off
>and
>>sharing
>> love contributed to your existence.
>>
>> You are the product of eight great grandparents, sixteen great
great
>>grand-
>> parents, thirty two great great great grandparents etc..Keep
>>multiplying that
>> number by two. If you figure a average of twenty-five years between
>>each
>> generation you'll discover that in a scant 500 years ago there were
>>1,048,576
>> people on this planet beginning to produce YOU.
>> Atributed to the Rev. Gene Britton
>>
>> I hope you think about that. consider the file you would need to list
>them
>>all.
>> Happy Researching
>> Margaret
>>
>>
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>> Got ancestors on Maryland's Eastern Shore?
>> See Handley's Eastern Shore Genealogy Project:
>> http://bay.intercom.net/handley/
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