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Subject: Re: Your great VR work!
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:15:08 -0500

Peg:

This is MARVELLOUS! Exactly what we need happening. I knew I had gotten
that March 19, 1650 date for Richard's marriage from an accepted source (I
didn't THINK I dreamed it up) - and I'll bet a drumstick from my Thanksgiving
Turkey that I was right about the Watertown records saying (in the original)
that it was 19th day, 1st month, 1650. I also very much appreciate the
Sudbury VR's for the Whitney entrys. I'll be looking to integrate these with
my data files. (Wouldn't it have been nice for all us 20th Century
genealogists if, in the marriages, these people had been identified as to
parentage - i.e., John of Natick, son of A & B, m. Sylvia Sidney, daughter of
C & D) As it is, we are stuck trying to figure out which individual is the
son or daughter of which family, leaving our choices as guesses until we can
find another way to prove them, like daughters being named with their
husband's surname in their father's will, or grandchildren that identify a
father with a particular son. Don't think, however, that I am looking a gift
horse in the mouth (as is said). I'll happily try to figure these out and be
glad I've got the VR's to work with.

Apropos that, is your handwriting good enough that I could take on some of
the typing and sending out? I would like to help, somehow, if I could,
because I am anxious to promote this kind of effort on the behalf of the
group. Also, could I make a contribution to the "dimes for the copy machine"
fund?

Thank you again, so much, on behalf of us all.

Allan

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