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Re: Walton's Mountain notaries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Sun Jan 4 15:57:16 2004
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To: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:34:21 EST."
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Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:27:18 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
> Christmas season is ending - and once again I heard the readings
> about the edict from Caesar that all people return to their home
> towns to be counted in a census. Maybe we can take a lesson from
> that - and have everyone return to people who have known the
> person, uninterrupted, from birth to the present in order to get
> anything notarized. Anyone who couldn't find such people just
> couldn't get anything notarized, I guess.
Without having done anything whatsoever to assist,
I'm already pretty well documented in two different
online geneaology sites, and going back several
generations with all the extended family I never
met carefully enumerated. I'd bet you are, too.
BTW, the guy who played the granddaddy on Walton's
Mountain was my third cousin, twice removed.
--dan
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