Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:25:19 -0400
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Herbert,
I will reinterate. As long as there is NO PROOF that Thomas Jefferson was
the father, and as long as THIS PARTICULAR oral history stands, I will
choose in favor of the oral history. Far too often in this country, we have
chosen to reject the great oral histories of races for whom oral history was
an important means of maintaining their history. Until or unless it can be
proven that Thomas Jefferson did not father the Heming children in
questions, I will stick by the oral history.
There is an oral history in my own family, that a great-great grandmother
was Lenne Lenape. The geneologists in the family say that it cannot be
"PROVEN", yet if you look at some of the faces in the family, the evidence
is right in front of your nose.
Think also of the famed story of the Lost Colony at Roanoke. Native American
oral history explains it nicely (as someone once shared on this list when
the subject came up). But, some will reject the authority of oral history
because it is oral history and not written down. Being written down does no
necessarily make anything of certain "Truth". A careful reading of the
Jamestown Narratives and comparison to archeological evidence on the
lifestyle of the Powhatan, puts the bosh on any idea of "truth" being only
conveyed in the written record.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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