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Subject:	Re: Genealogy and racial integrity
From:	"Fessler, Vera F." <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:47:18 -0500
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That's six generations --- so maybe 150 years on average? (2 to the
sixth power is 120)

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henry Wiencek
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:21 AM
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Subject: Genealogy and racial integrity

In May 1992 the Charlottesville "Daily Progress" carried an article
about a recently deceased UVA professor whose will, it was revealed,
stipulated that his heirs would be disinherited if he/she married a
person who was more than 1/120 black.  I don't know how many generations
you'd have to go back to ascertain that, and I don't know if his heirs
had to provide such documentation.

Henry Wiencek
Charlottesville

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