Re: [LegacyUG] Race

2012-07-22 Thread M Sandvig
We are American Indian. I have put this is nationality, i.e. Lakota, Seminole, etc and added the band and Enrollment number. Marie in Seattle sandv...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: > I just realized there is no place in Legacy to record a person’s race (or > is

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2012-07-06 Thread Robert Runion
s become a soapbox. > Can we terminate it please? > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Runion [mailto:sarge1...@cox.net] > Sent: Saturday, 7 July 2012 4:11 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race - > > So - how 'bout us 'Appalac

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2012-07-06 Thread Ian GARDENER
.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race - So - how 'bout us 'Appalachian-Americans' On Jul 6, 2012, at 10:16 AM, David C Abernathy wrote: > I have to agree with John. If there are "African Americans" Then we have > "Asian Americans", "European A

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2012-07-06 Thread Robert Runion
--- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > -Original Message- > From: hwedhlor [mailto:hwedh...@cox.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 05,

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2012-07-06 Thread David C Abernathy
sage- From: hwedhlor [mailto:hwedh...@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 7:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race - Bill, Please refrain from generalizing about what "many Americans" think, or do not think. I've lived in the United States of

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2012-07-06 Thread Charani
t; == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > > > From: Ron Bernier [mailto:ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:11 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race > > > > David is the

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2012-07-05 Thread Runolfson
My apologies, you are right, sadly I have met some but that it just me. I am bowing out of this conversation. Bill In a message dated 7/5/2012 7:33:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, hwedh...@cox.net writes: Bill, Please refrain from generalizing about what "many Americans" think, or do not think

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2012-07-05 Thread hwedhlor
-- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > <http://www.schmeckabernathy.com/> > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot > Antivirus == > > *From:*Ron Bernier [mailto:ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 05

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2012-07-05 Thread hwedhlor
Bill, Please refrain from generalizing about what "many Americans" think, or do not think. I've lived in the United States of America for nearly 69 years, and have never met a single American who thinks Africa is a country, and not a continent. Such generalizations are just as inaccurate as the

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2012-07-05 Thread M. Brenzel
ssage- From: Michele Lewis [mailto:ancestor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 3:12 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Race I could make an event but that would be weird. Your race isn't an event in your life. For now I am just writing it in the notes so

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2012-07-05 Thread David C Abernathy
ead. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com <http://www.schmeckabernathy.com/> == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Ron Bernier [mailto:ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:11 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re:

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2012-07-05 Thread Runolfson
African American in considered by some as a race but anyone born in Africa and now in America would fit that description. Not all people from Africa are black. That is where some confusion can come in. Many Americans think Africa is a country, it is a continent, of many nations and people. It co

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2012-07-05 Thread Ron Bernier
David is the second person that has commented on this thread, saying that people need to be careful not to "confuse" race with nation of origin. This totally baffles me as to how anyone wouldn't know what the difference between a person's race and their nation of origin. American and South African

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2012-07-05 Thread David Abernathy
Only some of them (census) had contained race. Also one needs to careful as to what is a race and not a nation of origin. Sent from my Kindle Fire In God We Trust Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-

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2012-07-05 Thread Michele Lewis
Sigh... Okay, Ron. AMERICAN census records contain race, not UK ones :) :) :) Michele -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:27 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race Charani, If I may

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2012-07-05 Thread Charani
Ron Ferguson wrote: > > Sorry, Charani, I misattributed the quote, it was, of course, from Michele. No worries :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Ar

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2012-07-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Sorry, Charani, I misattributed the quote, it was, of course, from Michele. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Charani Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:25 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race Michele Lewis wrote: > I co

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2012-07-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race Michele Lewis wrote: > I could make an event but that would be weird. Your race isn't an event > in your life. For now I am just writing it in the notes so that I know to > take race into consideration when I am searching for rec

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2012-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
> I was very careful to use the term "Fact/Event" because at the head of > the "Event list" Legacy actually uses the term "Events/Facts" and the > first field on the entry screen is Event/Fact. My reversal of the words > was accidental, but appropriate in this case. If you look at the list > of

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2012-07-05 Thread Runolfson
yUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race On 05/07/2012 19:28, Michele Lewis wrote: > I just realized there is no place in Legacy to record a person’s > race (or is there?) I just received a marriage license in the mail > from Forrest County, MS on one of my relatives.

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2012-07-05 Thread Michele Lewis
@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race But it's a "fact" note the list is titled Events/Facts. Not everything in the census is in Legacy - and don't forget, the census records from other countries probably have different information than those in the US. Plus each US census

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2012-07-05 Thread Sherry/Support
But it's a "fact" note the list is titled Events/Facts. Not everything in the census is in Legacy - and don't forget, the census records from other countries probably have different information than those in the US. Plus each US census is different. There aren't fields for schooling, literacy

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2012-07-05 Thread Michele Lewis
- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 3:06 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race I would suggest using the term "Ethnicity" as that would cover all backgrounds besides just Caucasian, African, Asian, etc. S

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2012-07-05 Thread Michele Lewis
ed a field for that. Michele -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:38 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Race On 05/07/2012 19:28, Michele Lewis wrote: > I just realized there is no place

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2012-07-05 Thread Sherry/Support
I would suggest using the term "Ethnicity" as that would cover all backgrounds besides just Caucasian, African, Asian, etc. Scottish, French, etc would be covered under ethnicity. And please don't make the mistake of calling just *any* person of African descent as "African-American". A black per

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2012-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 05/07/2012 19:28, Michele Lewis wrote: > I just realized there is no place in Legacy to record a person’s race > (or is there?) I just received a marriage license in the mail from > Forrest County, MS on one of my relatives. The marriage came from one > of the “Colored” marriage books.