Welcome from me, too, Kay!  I feel you will enjoy this list. There are among
us those who truly try to help each other out.  A lot of us have
become "friends" because we have hit dead ends and are researching the same
surnames, families, etc.  Please don't ever hesitate to ask for help.  No
question is ever thought of as stupid or whatever.  And another thing I
would say we do is try to share information when we can.  An example would
be, "Hey I just found this, maybe someone could use this...' kind of
thing...We all take this list seriously and at times a bit too
passionately....

As for the comments on the hat, well, I was in the middle of that in the
beginning and I was bitten by the powers that be.  All I can say is, when
something comes up like that again my advice to you would be to keep your
comments off of the "list" and take it private.  That way you will not get
in trouble.

Shirley Cox Schroeder
Richmond, VA native now living in Kansas (of all places...)

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Margaret
>
> Thanks for the nice welcome!  Not everyone on this list was as
> nice/friendly as you were.  But they chose to email me privately with their
> stinging - hateful remarks one of which I have cut and pasted a portion of
> his e mail:
>
> " person who truly doisn't want to start another wave of negative comments,
> I would think, would keep her freakin' yap shut. signed Chuck West"
>
> I have blocked them from my mail box as I don't have time for the "hot
> heads" on this list.
>
> Now as for genealogy and the reason I joined the list I am searching for
> information about the WOOD/WOODS family for starters.  I understand the
> brothers arrived in America during the early 1600's.  There are some
> descendants who were active in the RW.  Not sure but I think they
> intermarried with the McDOWELL and REID families.  They all are referred to
> as the "Scotch/Irish"being from Ireland but of the Scottish descent.  Would
> greatly appreciate any info the list might have.
>  Sincerely, Kay
>   ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Margaret Kerr Beckwith
>  To: Kay
>
>
>  Welcome aboard, Kay!
>
>  I read your comments and have similar feelings.
>
>  As patriotic genealogists and family historians, we seem to have a greater
>  understanding and respect for what our forefathers fought valiantly for!
>
>  Margaret Kerr Beckwith
>  Elkins, West Virginia
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Kay" <[log in to unmask]>
>  To: <[log in to unmask]>
>  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:26 PM
>  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] New List Member
>
>
>  I am a new member to this list and after reading the post from Mr.
>  Richards I was curious enough to check the Archives to see what it was all
>  about.  I see there was, in my opinion, a serious "rush to judgment" in as
>  much as the remark someone made about Obama wearing his hat backwards.  I
>  too noticed this on TV and I must admit that I wished that our President
>  elect would act a bit MORE presidential.  Wishing he looked more
>  presidential even on a beach somewhere is not in the least a racial
> comment.
>  I returned from Europe last week where I spent Christmas and New Years.  I
>  eventually became quite annoyed when European friends and just ordinary
>  people I met on a bus or a taxi driver(they dearly love to talk to
>  Americans) ask me If I liked having a President who "thought" he was an
>  arrogant rock star or some center fold model (their words - not mine).  I
>  truly respect the office of the United States President and have always
>  refrained from making negative remarks no matter which party he
> represents.
>  I pray for his success as do the rest of you on this list.  Calling
> someone
>  a Racist without even knowing this person, is a Racist of the highest
> degree
>  and was used a lot during the battle for the presidency.  It seemed
> everyone
>  was scared to death of saying a negative thing about Obama for fear they
>  would be labeled a "Racist".
>
>    'Nuff said - don't want to start another wave of negative comments.
>
>  My family roots run deep in Virginia as do they in the New England area.
>  I
>  have enough DAR Patriots and others who have fought for our freedom to
> know
>  how much we have to loose if we forget WHO we are as Patriotic Americans
> and
>  remember why we are a free society and what it is going to take to remain
> a
>  Free Society.   The men who wrote our Constitution had to have had an
>  insight as to what we Americans were going to eventually face because we
>  became complacent and lazy - totally forgetting that our cost for freedom
>  was a dear price that our military, through the years, have paid....
>  These
>  men are now shifting nervously in their graves wondering if their ultimate
>  sacrifice has all been for naught.
>
>  I wish the best 2009 for everyone on this list and hope I may ask your
>  advise or perhaps help me in the near future to run down some of my
> Virginia
>  roots.
>
>  signed- another multi-cultural American
>
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