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From: "Gilbert Ray" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Re: SCT-ISLAY-D Digest V06 #140 & IGI entries on LDS site
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:20:02 -0400
References: <20060731234621.72746.qmail@web26415.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


Touché!
----- Original Message -----
From: "seann mhaighdean" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Re: SCT-ISLAY-D Digest V06 #140 & IGI entries on
LDS site


> Since youse are all still ranting on about this I think I will put in my
> tuppence worth on the matter.
> It chust makes me laugh to think of all youse who are so uptight about
> errors and mistakes and are being so pedantic about listing sources and so
> on and so forth, when we all know fine well that the folk that made the
> history in the first place very often made their own erroneous entries.
> My own Uncle Duncan got married over in Glasgow and said he was 56 when
> he was actually 64. I saw the certificate myself and he had a great laugh
> telling us about how he duped poor Anna!
> And who was Flory's father? .. . Donald was it??? are you sure???
> It's no wonder I've remained an seann mhaighdean.
> And another thing - as I enjoy a rant myself - was it not the LDS church
> that went about at its own members time and expense making copies of
> records so that you can go and order them from their libraries that youse
> use free of charge. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
> SM
>
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